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KOTE TO THE READER. 

This Sketch should be read in connection with Swinton's History 
of the Army of the Potomac, and with reference to the plans and 
maps therein contained, which are accurate. 



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PRINTED AT THE OFFICE OF THE "FRANKLIN REPOSITORY" ---COOK & HAYS, PUBLISHERS. 

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PREFATORY. 



It is desirable that a record of the principal incidents in 
the career of the Regiment which Franklin county was 
pleased to consider peculiarly her own, should be preserv- 
ed. The survivors will cherish such a memorial. The 
dead will be embalmed in its pages. 

It is especially becoming to make this memorial the 
means of rearing a Column to the Fallen Braves of the 
County, of whatever Regiment. 

The Franklin County Soldiers'' Monumental Association 
design erecting such a Column at the County seat. This 
Sketch has been prepared for them, and the proceeds de- 
rived from its sale will be devoted to that object. 

It has been read, as published in the following pages, to 
a number of the Officers and Men of the Regiment, who 
were with it throughout, and has received their approval. 
The Company Rolls are taken from the Regimental De- 
scriptive Book. The "Remarks"— the notes of changes, 
casualties, &c., — have been carefully revised by competent 
members of the respective. Companies — in aU the Compa- 
nies except A, C and K, by one or more of the Officers. 
Sergeant Seiders revised A; Sergeant Strickler, K; 
Mr. Seth Dickey, C. 

General Tyler kindly furnished copies of his Reports of 
the part taken by his Brigade at the battles of Fredericks- 
burg and ChanceUorsville. 






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On the 8th of July, 1862, the PeninsuUxr Campaign came 
to a disastrous close. McClellan was at Harrison's Landing. 
The siege of Richmond was raised. Fifteen thousand men 
had been lost to the army in the fruitless struggle. That 
grand army, which was the pride and hope of the country and 
which had fought its way to the gates of the Rebel Capital, had 
staggered back in a seven days' combat to the banks of the 
James river. The North was stunned with grief and de- 
spair. 

Halleck was made General-in-Chief. On the 14th of July, 
Pope took command of the Army of Virginia. On the 17th, 
the President was authorized to accept the services of one 
hundred thousand volunteers for nine months to serve as 
infantry, for whom the same provision was made as for 
volunteers for three years, except as to bounty. At the 
same time arrangements were made to set in motion the 
terrible machinery of the draft. The President approved 
the Confiscation and Emancipation Act. The Nation 
was beginning to adopt stringent and energetic measures. 
On the Slst of July, all leaves of absence were revoked 
and annulled, and all officers and privates capable of ser- 
vice were required to join their commands. During the 











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first week of August, the Confederate Generals were as- 
sembling their forces for the purpose of crushing the army 
commanded by General Pope and advancing to the cap- 
ture of the Capital. On the 9th of August, Jackson fought 
Banks at Cedar Mountain, 

Such was the aspect of military affairs in the East whilst 
the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth regiment was recruit- 
ing. About three weeks were occupied in this labor. Ju- 
niata county furnished two companies, namely: F and I. 
Captain John P. Wharton, of Perryville, led the men of 
Company F, and those of I came in charge of Captain 
Amos H. Martin, of Miffiintown. Both these ofiicers were 
men of mature years and sterling character, and the young 
men who followed them from the banks of the Blue Juni- 
ata were the flower and promise of the county. 

The remaining eight companies were from Franklin coun- 
ty, except part of one company, which was furnished by 
Fulton. Doebler gathered around him, in Company A, the 
young men of Chambersburg; and here also Miles and 
John H. Reed assembled companies G and D. Brownson 
led down C from Mercersburg. The mountaineers of Ful- 
ton, under Pott and Hoke, uniting with the men of Antrim 
collected by Wm. H. Davison, formed Company B, under 
Austin. Waynesboro' sent out E, under the Walkers. 
From the highlands of Path Valley, John H. Walker was 
followed by the bulk of Company H, Elder filling out the 
complement with St. Thomas' contribution. The quota 
of Greencastle marched out as Company K, under Rowe 
and A. R. Davison. The materiel of these companies was 
also excellent. The very pick and pride of Franklin county 
responded to the call of the President at this great crisis 
of the struggle. The towns and the hill-sides of the Con- 
ococheague sent of their best youth. A fair proportion 
of the ofiicers had seen service and learned the rudiments 
of drill and discipline in the school of actual hostilities. 





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'0 ORGANIZATION OF IHE REGIMENT. 

This regiment, made up so largely of the citizens of Frank- 
lin county, was always regarded with i»ride hy her people 
as her peculiar contribution to the war. 

The several companies of which the regiment was com- 
posed assembled at Camp Curtin between 1;he 6th and 10th 
of August, 1862. These having been duly mustered into 
service, an election for field officers was held in camp on the 
loth of August — the electors being the company officers. 
This election was without legal force, and merely served 
to indicate to the Governor the wishes of the regiment in 
this regard. James G. Elder, of St. Thomas, Franklin 
comity, who had been captain of company C, Second regi- 
ment Pennsylvania Volunteers, (three months service) was 
elected Colonel. Captain John Dick, of the One Hun- 
dred and Seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, then serving 
with his regiment in the field, was elected Lieutenant Colo- 
nel, and D. Watson Rowe, late First Lieutenant of Compa- 
ny C, Second P. V,, was chosen Major. The selection of 
Captain Dick was due to the desire of the regiment to have 
the aid of an experienced soldier, but the regulations of the 
War Department, at the time, prohibited officers of three- 
years regiments from being transferred to nine-months or- 
ganizations, (as was said,) and the Governor accordingly com- 
missioned James G, Elder as Colonel, D. Watson Rowe as 
Lieutenant Colonel, and James C. Austin, who had been 
voted for as Lieutenant Colonel, to be Major. At the same 
time, John Stewart was commissioned as Adjutant, and T, 
Jefferson Nill as Quartermaster. 

On the next day, the men having been supplied with 
arms and clothing, and the companies furnished with camp 
and garrison equipage, the order to proceed to the front was 
received by Colonel Elder, and at 4 A. M. of Friday, the 15th 
of August, tents were struck, and the commissions of the 
Field and Staff Officers being now handed to them, the re- 
giment was conveyed by car to Baltimore and thence to 



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Washington, where it arrived at 4 A. M. of the succeeding 
day. Remaining at the Soldiers' Eest until noon, the march 
was then taken up for the south side of the Potomac, and at 
6 P. M., tents were pitched near Fort Alban}'-, about five miles 
from the city, a beautiful location, which was named Camp 
Stanton. General Casey was here in command of the provis- 
ional brigades, and to him reports were made. At this time 
the Surgeons joined the regiment and the Non-Commissioned 
Staff were appointed. From this camp, on the 22nd of Au- 
gust, the command was moved to Alexandria, and thence 
four miles out to Mrs. Scott's house, near Clouds' Mills. 
The regiment was now brigaded with the Ninety-First, 
One Hundred and Twenty -Ninth, and One Hundred and 
Thirty-Fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers, commanded re- 
spectively by Colonels Gregory, Frick and O'Brien. Brig- 
adier-General Erastus B. Tyler was assigned to the com- 
mand of the brigade. No change took place in the bri- 
gade organization whilst the One Hundred and Twenty- 
Sixth was in service, and General Tyler remained in com- 
mand until the term of service of the regiments had ex- 
pired. Here the regiment was fully supplied with am- 
munition and transportation, and began regular drill. It 
was ready for work. Major Hershberger, of Chambers- 
burg, went down to the front and instituted a school for 
officers, which was kept up until the result of the second 
Bull Run necessitated active movements of the command. 

On the 23d of August, orders were received by Colonel 
Elder to be in readiness to proceed to "Warrenton; but, for 
some reason, the regiment was not moved. On the 26th, 
indeed, the baggage was loaded and sent off, ])ut the men 
remained in camp, and in the afternoon again pitched tents. 
On Sunday, the 31st of August, orders came at 8 P. M., 
directing Lieutenant Colonel Rowe to prepare to proceed 
with six companies of the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth 
and a section of artillery to Bull Run bridge and hold it. 

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WITHIN THE LINES OF WASHINGTON. 

The companies were called out, a train of cars with the 
artillery aboard stood ready near by. At 11 P. M. Colonel 
Eowe was ordered to Alexandria for final directions, but 
the order to move did not come, for the tide of battle had 
already passed the point designated, and the bridge was de- 
stroyed. On this day, companies A and B were sent se- 
venteen miles to the front in charge of an ammunition train, 
and Company K was also sent to Fairfax Station to guard 
and care for the wounded there collected. The deep boom- 
ing of cannon had now, for several days, warned the regi- 
ment of the fearful struggle dail}^ drawing nearer, and at 
length the streams of wounded and stragglers revealed only 
too clearly that a second time, on the field of Bull Run, the 
banners of the Union had trailed before the foe. 

On the 2nd of September, the whole army was drawn 
back within the lines around Washington, and the One 
Hundred and Twenty-Sixth was moved to a position one 
mile from Alexandria, named Camp Wade, between two 
Forts. Here, on Saturday, the 6th of September, Reverend 
Samuel J. Niccolls, appointed Chaplain to the regiment, 
joined it, and the Commissioned Staff was thus made full. 

On Sunday, the 7th, a long and tiresome march was made 
from this camp to Fort Corcoran, up the river, and back 
again to Camp Whipple beside Fort Richardson, where tents 
were pitched in a peach-orchard. At 6| in the evening di- 
vine service was held by Reverend Mr. Niccolls, the chap- 
lain, before head-quarters. At that hour, unknown to the 
men, the whole rebel army had crossed tbe Potomac and 
were settling around Frederick. 

At this place the regiment learned ot the dismissal from 
the service of Major Austin, on the 5th of September, for 
visiting Washington without leave, contrary to General Or- 
ders, No. 114. Major Austin had been very sick of a se- 
vere chronic disease, and ignorant, like the rest, of the or- 
der referred to, went to the city and placed himself in charge 






HOMES IN DANGER. 

of a physician there from August 28th till September 3d, 
when he rejoined the regiment. This summary dismissal 
was subsequently, upon a better understanding of the mat- 
ter, revoked and Major Austin restored, but he then re- 
signed. He accompanied the regiment, however, to An- 
tietam. 

It was whilst lying in this camp, a portion of the regiment 
in the rifle-pits, and the remainder on picket at Bailey's 
Cross-Roads, near Munson's Hill, every one supposing 
the enemy to be in full force in front of Washington, and an 
assault upon the fortifications daily expected, that a flood 
of letters from Franklin county first informed the men of 
Lee's invasion of Maryland, and that their hearths and altars 
were threatened. A very deep feeling pervaded the entire re- 
giment. Every one pondered the situation, and endeavored 
to divine the near future. While thus the letters came in 
from the 8th until the 11th, showing with each day an in- 
crease of excitement at home; while Lee was issuing his 
proclamations to Maryland, and McClellan was marching in 
five parallel columns on Frederick; the men of the One 
Hundred and Twenty-Sixth picketed and drilled, and 
lounged and smoked in the works around Washington, 
the monotony broken only by a review on the 9th by Gene- 
Fitz John Porter and General Whipple. But the after- 
noon of Friday, the 12th, found the brigade of Tyler march- 
ing through Georgetown and Washington to Meridian Hill, 
at the foot of 14th street in the latter city, whence began, 
on Sunday, the 14th of September, the march for the bat- 
tle field of Antietam. 

Before we follow the regiment from Washington a bit of 
romance connected with its history is to be chronicled. Wil- 
liam Fitzpatrick, of Western Virginia, loved or was loved 
by Frances Day. Fitzpatrick enlisted in company F, from 
Juniata county, and went to the war with the One Hundred 
and Twenty-Sixth regiment. Li a short time he fell ill, 






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and o' a the 24th of August, 1862, whilst the regiment lay 
at CI oud's Mills, he died in the hospital at Alexandria. On 
^^16 day he died, Frank Maine, a Sergeant of company F, 
^^" laccountably deserted. When he enlisted he was a stran- 
F ^er to all the men of that company, but in a few days he 
had so ingratiated himself with his comrades and officers 
as to be promoted to Sergeant. He was not heard of any 
more while the regiment remained in service. But long 
after, in the far West, a soldier, wounded badly in a great 
battle, could not conceal her sex, and Frances Day then 
told how she had followed Fitzpatrick into the army and 
become herself a soldier and a Sergeant in the One Hundred 
and Twenty-Sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers; of her deser- 
tion upon her lover's death, and the abandon and despair 
which led her to seek again the ranks of the army. To ve- 
rify her story, letters were written to the officers of Compa- 
ny F, atMifflintown, and thus the mystery of the Sergeant's 
desertion was dispelled. 

On Sunday, Sept. 14th, the regiment marched with the 
brigade from the Camp at Meridian Hill for the Monocacy, 
by way of Rockville, encamping by that stream on the af- 
ternoon of the 16th, about the time Hooker's corps was first 
put in motion on the field of Antietam, and the great battle 
began. On the first day's march. General Humphreys 
with his staff" was observed on the roadside, snatching a 
marching review of the brigade as it passed by en route, and 
it was then learned that a day or two before he had been as- 
signed to the division composed of the brigades of Tyler 
and Allabach. He remained at the head of this division 
until the muster out of the regiments composing it. Of 
these two officers, Tyler and Humphreys, who together had 
sole charge of the fortunes of this regiment, General Hum- 
phreys was a*Regular officer, past middle life, educated at 
West Point, deeply learned in engineering, long attached 
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war, ou the staff of General McClellan. He entered the ser- 
vice on the 1st of July, 1831, as Brevet Second Lieutenant, 
in the Second Artillery. Served in Florida: resigned 30th 
September, 1836: was appointed First Lieutenant of Topo- 
graphical Engineers, July 7th, 1838. He knew little of hu- 
man nature in civilians, and when he first assumed com- 
mand of this division he was not well fitted to handle citi- 
zen volunteers. Nevertheless, he was greatly relied upon. 
General Tyler, on the other hand, was not an educated sol- 
dier, hut full of military spirit and aptitude, and admirably 
suited to have charge of a brigade of men fresh from the 
people. He was heartily liked by all under him, and was 
as much respected as liked. He was a large, soldierly-look- 
ing man, in the prime of life. He entered the army at the 
outbreak of the war as Colonel of the Seventh Ohio, and 
served under Rosecrans in West Virginia. He subsequent- 
ly fought by the side of Shields in the Valley, when Stone- 
wall Jackson Avas there. The regiment was fortunate in 
both its general ofiicers. 

Tyler's brigade lay on the Monocacy, by the Frederick 
road, from the evening of the 16th till the middle of the af- 
ternoon of the 17th of September, during which time a large 
body of paroled Union prisoners, surrendered by Miles at 
Harper's Ferry, passed southward. About 3 o'clock the 
march was taken up for Antietam, by way of Frederick, 
Middletown and Boonsboro,' and the command was forced 
forward all night, halting but one hour on the top of South 
Mountain tor rest, and at 8 A. M. of the 18th arrived on 
the battle field, received twenty additional rounds of ammu- 
nition, and took position in reserve with the rest of Porter's 
corps. The men were much fatigued with the twenty-six 
miles forced marching, but were in good heart at the pros- 
pect of making their first fight near home.. The reinforce- 
ment which Humphreys thus brought to M'Clellan number- 
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crossed the Potomac, Tyler's Ijrigade was moved down 
to the river bank and watched tlie enemy on the other side 
all day, while an Ohio battery amused them with an occa- 
sional shell. The brigade went into camp one mile from 
Sharpsburg, where it lay without a movement worthy of 
note until the 16th of October. The One Hundred and 
Twenty- Sixth regiment, raised on the border, was over- 
overflowed all the while it lay here with friends and rela- 
tives, who came in great numbers, bearing loads of pro- 
visions and delicacies. The State Colors were presented 
here, and the division was honored with a review by the 
President of the United States. 

On the 16th of October, General Humphreys, with his di- 
vision and some artillery and cavalry, made a reconnoisance 
into Virginia, crossing the Potomac below Shepherdstown 
and proceeding as far as Leetown. The enemy's cavalry 
hovered in the Federal front all the way, and his horse-artil- 
lery were kept pretty busily at work. He fell back, however, 
without showing much resistance, and the casualties were 
few. The reconnoitering force encamped over night near 
Leetown, and next day retraced its steps and recrossed the 
river, the movement having been very flnely conducted by 
General Humphreys. After this, for two weeks, the time 
passed as before — in guard, drill, parade and review. The 
ladies of Waynesboro' relieved the monotony somewhat 
by the presentation of a beautiful banner to Company E, 
many of the fair donors being present. 

At length, on the 30th of October, 1863, (M'Clellan having 

begun his movement on Warrenton,) the regiment broke 

camp at 3 P. M., and moved about six miles into Pleasant 

Valley. At day -break next day the march was resumed, 

the river at Harpers' Ferry was crossed on pontoons, and 

the brigade halted four miles beyond the Ferry, in Loudon 

county. On Sunday, 2nd of November, Snickersville was 

reached and the regiment went into camp, but having only 

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had time for supper, the inarch was coiitiuued after dark to 
the top of the mountain — Snicker's Gap. Here, on the top 
of the Blue Ridge, the brigade lay until Wednesday, the 5th. 
The weather was growing cold. The west winds whistled 
on the mountain peaks and pierced to the marrow of the 
men's bones. But there were compensations. The sol- 
dierSj living off the enemy, reveled in mutton and veal. 
The enraptured vision of the pickets drank in the beauties of 
the Shenandoah Valley, spread out like a great quilt beneath 
them — Berryville plainly in view, and the distant spires of 
Winchester dimly visible. 

From Snicker's Gap the command was moved towards 
Aldie, but when about four miles from that place changed 
direction and passed through White Plains to N'ew Balti- 
more, and thence to the vicinity of Warrenton, where it lay 
encamped until the 17th of November. Here M'Clellan, 
attended by Burnside, his successor in command of the ar- 
m}^, bade farewell to all the corps in a grand and brilliant 
review, A day or two later, Fitz John Porter also reviewed 
the 5th Corps upon taking leave of it — Hooker succeeding 
him. While here, the six corps of the army were consolida- 
ted into three Grand Divisions of two corps each, and the 
Fifth Corps, now under Butterfield, was assigned to the 
Center Grand Division, which Hooker commanded. On 
Sunday, the 16th, Hooker reviewed Humphreys' division, 
and the men began to know "Fighting Joe," and to take 
pride in him as their commander. In the evening, Rever- 
end Mr. Niccolls preached his farewell sermon to the bri- 
gade, at General Tyler's headquarters. The leave of absence 
granted him by the Presbyterian Congregation of Cham- 
bersburg had expired, and he now resigned the chaplaincy 
and returned home. 

On Monday, the 17th, the division began its march by 
way of Warrenton Junction and Richland Creek to the vi- 
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FREDERICKSBURG. 

traversed poor and deserted, the rations short, and the march, 
though the stages were not long, was altogether disagreea- 
ble. On the 19th tents were pitched six miles from Fred- 
ericksburg, and on the 22d camp was shifted to a point two 
miles nearer Falmouth. The coldness of the weather now 
admonished the soldiers to build chimneys and otherwise 
promote physical comfort in their tents, and the camp soon 
became a temporary village. Upon the arrival of the regi- 
ment here, it was greeted with the return of Captain Reed 
and Lieutenants Cook and Hornbaker and a number of en- 
listed men left sick at Antietam. 

At 4 A. M. of the 11th December, the reveille was beat- 
en and the regiment moved out to the field of its first great 
battle. It halted in a level plat about two miles out. The 
next day it was moved forward a mile or two and bivouacked 
in a pine woods near the Philips House, and close by the 
river. During both days the men were inspired by the mu- 
sic of bands and the deep booming of Burnside's cannon 
on the river bank. On Saturday, the 13th of December, 
the brigade crossed the Rappahannock on the upper pon- 
toon bridge, entered Fredericksburg at the northern end, 
then turning to the left moved down to the centre of the 
town. At o| P. M, General Tyler moved his command to the 
front, and filing to the right from the Telegraph road, en- 
tered a low meadow, at the far end of which stood a large 
brick tannery. . Above this meadow, overshadowing it, 
frowned the rebel redoubts and batteries. The command 
was massed in this enclosure — the Union and Confederate 
batteries playing over the heads of the men. Very soon a 
Tebel officer was observed to advance a section, and imme- 
diately he opened od the crowded mass beneath. The shell 
dropped down into the throng and threw the earth and man- 
gled bodies into the air. The men were not in line of bat- 
tle — could not form in line — were simply awaiting orders. 
They could only watch the battery on the height above; watch 







THE BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG. 

the flight .of the shell into their midst, and shudder at its 
destruction. It was awful to stand thus and be slaughtered. 
But at length the order came to move to the left of the Tele- 
graph road and form in two lines under cover of a hill, pre- 
paratory to a last charge upon the rebel works on Marye's 
Heights. The road was swept by the enemy's shell and tlie 
bullets of his sharp-shooters. The right of the regiment 
was hurried across; the left waited a moment at the edge of 
the road, then it also hastily passed over, but not scathless. 
Lieutenant Fortescue, of G, had scarcely put foot into the 
road before a ball from a sharp-shooter's rifle pierced his 
head and he fell a corpse. 

As rapidly as possible, for it was growing late, the column 
of assault was formed in two lines. The tirst line was com- 
posed of the One Hundred and Thirty-Fourth Pennsylva- 
nia, under Colonel O'Brien, on the right, and the One Hun- 
dred and Twenty -Xinth Pennsylvania, Colonel Frick, on 
the left; the second line, six or eight paces in the rear, was 
made up of the One Hundred and Twentv-Sixth Pennsvl- 
vania, Colonel Elder, on the right, and the Xinety-First 
Pennsvlvania, Colonel Gregorv, on the left. 

While the brigade was thus forming, at the base of the hill, 
a battery above was engaged in a fearful and desperate duel 
with the rebel artillery — their manv ffuns concentratino; on 
it a converging fire. It was an unequal fight. The artillery- 
men, black with powder and smoke, worked like fiends. 
Volunteers were sent from the res^iments below. In a short 
time the men were scattered about the ground dead, and the 
guns were rendered useless or hauled oft'. At this moment 
General Hooker and General Butterfield came out of town, 
and from an eminence a short distance to the rear, prepared 
to watch the eflfect of Humphreys' charge. 

The men were ordered to rely solely upon the bayonet and 
cautioned not to fire; the command: "Officers, twelve paces 
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and then, with cheer upon cheer, the hill which covered the 
formation was ascended and the charge began. The ranks 
were well kej)t; the men ran steadily and in line. The 
brick house on Marye's Hill was already reached. The even- 
ing was fine; it was just beginning to grow dark. This 
was the fourth charge made that day over this same ground. 
Hancock had followed French, and then Howard had gone 
up the hill. Each charge was repulsed after fifteen immor- 
tal minutes. When the third charge failed, Burnside, 
riding down to the Rappahannock, (the men of the One 
Hundred and Twenty-Sixth saw him pass,) gazing over at 
those heights, exclaimed, "That crest must be carried to- 
night!" Humphreys had been at once ordered across. So 
far he had done his work well. "jSTo prettier sight was ever 
seen," said Hooker, as he turned to leave the field after the 
failure of the assault, "than the charge of that Division." 
General Humphreys himself, a stern judge, who, brave to 
a fault, exacted much of the soldiers under him and was lit- 
tle given to compliment, spoke highly of the conduct of his 
command. General Tyler iu his report extols their gallant- 
ly. Harpers' Pictorial, a week after the charge, contained 
a large wood-cut illustration of it. But it was unsuccessful. 

In front of the brick house at the foot of the crest, and 
along the raised ground to its right and left, lay a body of 
men in line prone on the earth. They were the men of the 
last preceding charge. Whether they did not wish to be 
run over by the men and the officers on horseback, or from 
whatever cause, they raised partly up, cried halt, remon- 
strated with violent 2:esticulations as the chars-ino; line came 
upon them, and thereby very greatly disarranged the ranks 
and broke the force of the charge, ^ut the column passed 
over them like a storm. Colonel Elder led the riofht wins: 
of the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth to the right of the 
brick house. Lieutenant Colonel Rowe sent part of the 
left wing, placed in his charge, also to the right, and led 
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the two left companies,' II and K, around on the oth'er 
side. These latter companies having a clear field pressed 
rapidly beyond the house and quite near the stone wall, 
blazing now in tlie evening with the enemy's fire. Colo- 
nel Elder, with those who went to the right of the house, 
was gj-eatly obstructed by fences in the way, which had to 
be broken down. N"evertheless he pushed vigorously beyond 
the house and approached the stone wall. As the house 
was passed on either side, the fire of musketry, which was 
severe before, grew terrific. The long line of stone wall was 
a sheet of ftame. From every eminence, in front, to right, to 
left, the rebel cannon were turned on the charging column. 
Whatever was to be done must be done quickly. In one 
moment more the wall could be gained. How it came about 
is not known, but certain it is that the men lying in front 
of the house, who had been passed over, began to fire at 
the enemy through our advancing lines. Immediately there 
was -a stop. The fire in the front, the fire in the rear, every 
Jiash visible in the twilight, astounded the soldiers. Be- 
wildered, they stood for a moment irresolute; then in their 
excitement began to fire at the rebel line. This was fatal. 
The charge was over. All its momentum was lost. It w^as 
folly to think of leading men leisurely up to that blazing 
fence; it was more hopeless still to expect them to stand still 
and remain enduring that fire. The oflicers urged. Colo- 
nel Elder, gallantly pushing forward, fell badly wounded. 
General Tyler was struck on the breast with a piece of 
shell. General Humphreys already had two horses killed 
under him, and was raving in front of the lines — urging 
the men on whilst pulling his holsters from under his dead 
horse. Among the line oflicers of the One Hundred and 
Twenty-Sixth, Doebler, Pott, Wharton, Walker, Fletcher, 
and Mackey, had been carried from the field. Men were 
falling rapidly. Their feeble fire against the stone wall 
w^as futile. It was growing dark. Lieutenant Colonel Rowe 







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was on the left of the regiment, on the other side of the house, 
ignorant that Colonel Elder had fallen. The regiment was 
without a Major. It fell back with the rest of the brigade 
to the protection of the house, and descending the acclivity 
up which the charge had been made, re-formed under the 
cover of the hill whence the charge began. 

Of the character of the work which this division ^^as put 
to do, and of the behavior of the men who followed Humph- 
reys up those heights on that December evening. Gene- 
ral Hooker speaks thus, under oath a week afterward, before 
the Committee on the Conduct of the War; and he who won 
on many a bloody field the sobriquet of "Fighting Joe," must 
be supposed no mean judge of a brilliant charge: 

Major General Joseph Hooker, sworn and examined.* 

"About 2 o'clock, on that day, [December loth,] I received orders 
to send another of my divisions to support General Sturgis, and 
about the same time I received an order from General Burnside to 
cross over my other two divisions and attack the enemy on the Tele- 
graph road— the same position we had been butting against all day 
long. As soon as I received the order my divisions commenced 
crossing'. 

"I rode forward to see what I could learn from the officers— French, 
Wilcox, Couch, and Hancock— who had been engaged in the attack. 
Their opinion, with one exception, was that the attack should not 
be made on that point. After conferring with them I went to exam- 
ine the position to see whether or not it could be turned. Discover- 
ing no weak point, and seeing that many of the troops that had al- 
ready been engaged in the attack were considerably demoralized, 
and fearing that should the enemy make an advance, even of bvit a 
small column, nothing but disaster would follow, I sent, my Aid- 
de-camp to General Burnside to say tliat I advised him not to attack 
at that i)lace. He returned, saying that the attack must be made. 
I had the matter so much at heart that I put si:)urs to my horse and 
rode over here, '[the Lacy House, where the committee were sitting,] 
and tried to dissuade General Burnside from making the attack. He 
insisted on its being made. 

"I then returned and brought up eveiy available battery in the 
city, with a view to break away their barriers by the use of artiHery. 
I proceeded against the barriers as I would against a fortification and 

^ *See Report on the Conduct of the War, Part 1, pp. 667, 671. 






HOOKER'S TESTIMONY. 

endeavored to breach a hole suflficiently large for a "forlorn hope" to 
enter. Before that, the attack along the line, it seemed to me, had 
been too general — not sufficiently concentrated. I had two batteries 
posted on the left of the road, within four hundred yards of the po- 
sition upon which the attack was to be made, and I had other parts 
of batteries posted on the right of the road at the distance of five or 
six hundred yards. I had all these batteries playing with great 
vigor until sunset upon that point, but with no apparent effect 
upon the rebels or upon their works. 

During the last part of the cannonading I had given directions to 
General Humphreys' division to form, under the shelter which a 
small hill afforded, in column for assault. When the fire of the ar- 
tillery ceased I gave directions for the enemy's works to be assaulted. 
General Humphreys' men took off their knajjsacks, overcoats and 
haversacks. They were directed to make the assault with empty 
mviskets, for there was no time there to load and fire, AVhen the 
word was given the men moved forward with great impetuosity. 
They ran and hurrahed, and I was encouraged by the great good feel- 
ing that pervaded them. The head of General Humi^hreys' column 
advanced to within, perhaps, fifteen or twenty yards of the stone 
wall, which was the advanced position which the rebels held — and 
then they were thrown back as quickly as they had advanced. Pro- 
bably the whole of the advance and the retiring did not occupy fif- 
teen minutes. They left behind, as was reiwrted, seventeen hun- 
dred and sixty of their number, out of about four thousand. 

"I may as well state here that Sykes' division was drawn up to 
support Humphreys, so that in case he should succeed, I could throw 
forward all the force that I had left — Sykes' division, about four 
thousand laien — to hold the position in face of thirty thousand who 
were massed behind that wall. That was why I did not like to 
make the attack, because even if successful, I could not hold the po- 
sition. It was now just dark. Findingthat I had lost as many men 
as my orders required me to lose, I suspended the attack, and direct- 
ed that the men should hold, for the advance line between Frede- 
ricksburg and the enemy, a ditch that runs along about midway be- 
tween the enemy's lines and the city, which would aftbrd a shelter 
for the men. 

"I will say that, in addition to the musketry fire that my men 
were exposed to, the crests of the hills surrounding Fredericksburg 
form almost a semi-circle, and these were filled with artillery, and 
the focus was the column that moved up to this assault. That focus 
was within good canister range, though 1 do not think any canister 
was thrown on my men that day. All these difficulties were api>a- 
rent and perfectly well known to me before I went into this assault. 







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Thoy were known also to other otncers. General French said to me 

that the whole army could not take that i3oint." * * * 
Question.— Had you made any impression upon their \vork^ 
Ansioer. -Not the slightest; no more than you could make upon 

the side of a mountain of rock. '=- * * * * * 

Question.— IIoiv did the men behave during the attack'^ 
Anstver.-They behaved well. There never was anything more 

glorious than the behavior of the men. No campaign in the 

WORLD EVER SAW A MORE GALLANT ADVANCE THAN HUMPH- 
REYS' MEN MADE THERE. But they Were put to do a work that 
no men could do." 

Colonel Elder was carried from the spot wliere he fell to 
the brick house, and after a while into Fredericksburg to the 
hospital, where he was placed in charge of Doctor Nugent. 
His left leg near the thigh was fearfully shattered, and his 
life for a time was despaired of. He was subsequently con- 
veyed to Washington, where he remained until the regiment 
was mustered out, the command of it devolving, thenceforth, 
on the Lieutenant Colonel. The wounds of Captain Doeb- 
ler also prevented his return, and Lieutenant Welsh was in 
charge of Company A from this time. During the charge 
the color-bearer of the One Hundred and Thirty-Fourth 
regiment was shot, and the colors of that regiment v/ere 
rescued and safely brought otf by George E. Jones, of com- 
pany H, One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth, and returned by 
Lieutenant Colonel Pvowe to the regiment. The brigade 
went into action two thousand strong, and lost in the" few 
minates of the charge, thirty-three officers and four hun- 
dred and twenty-three men. 

About 9 o'clock at night the brigade was withdrawn from 
the field and rested in the streets of the town. At 3 A. M., 
however, it was again taken under Colonel Gregory to the 
scene of the evening's charge. Everything now Avas perfect- 
ly quiet, not a gun broke the stillness of the night. The 
groans of the wounded rang out clear in the night air. The 
ground was strewed with the dead and dying, and the ambu- 
lances and stretcher-bearers flitted quickly and quietly over 




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the field A deep mist obscured everything. Lieutenant 
Walker was out with a party detailed for the purpose, seek- 
ino- all nio-ht long the wounded and dead of the One Hun- 
dred and Twenty-Sixth. Until daylight the regiment lay 
on the ascent below the brick house. In the morning the 
brio-ade was relieved and taken by General Tyler mto Fred- 
ericksburg, the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth bemg quar- 
tered in a graveyard opposite the office of G. H. C. ^^^we, 
Esq which was used as regimental headquarters. 1 he 14th 
was Sunday. On the evening of the 15th, the One Hun- 
dred and Twenty-Sixth was posted as a strong picket along 
one of the streets in the suburbs. From this duty it was 
subsequently taken, toward midnight, and hurriedly con- 
ducted across the city and out to the left beyond the limits 
of the town, across a stream and up a road to a small brick 
house Here four companies were held in reserve, and the 
remainder were posted on the edge of a precipitous hill 
running in a semi-circle round to the railroad. The ene- 
my's pickets could be heard talking. The men crawled 
quietly to their places and lay flat down, their guns pomt- 
ino- throuo-h the fence. Arrived at the block-house. Lieu- 
tenant Oolonel Bowe placed therein Captain Brownson, with 
a dozen of his men, and sent Captain Walker with six of 
company E's men across to the railroad. Just at this 
time the moon shone out brightly for a little while, throwing 
lono- shadows down the hill, rendering what Avas domg ob- 
servable to the enemy. But fortunately the changing of 
the pickets was now accomplished. Soon, however, it grew 
dark again and towards morning rained very hard. All night 
long the army of Burnside had been busy seeking the North 
bank of the Eappahannock, yet so quietly that not the re- 
bels only but this regiment (except one or two officers) knew 
nothing of it. 

Toward daylight an order came to withdraw the command 
as speedily and cautiously as possible. Colonel Eowe had 

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hardly begun to put this order in execution before it was 
countermanded, and the men had to be put back. Then 
part of a company of the J^inety-First under Captain Lcntz, 
and also a body of Berdan's sharpshooters were sent to him. 
Again the order came to withdraw^ and again it was coun- 
termanded by fast-riding aids-de-camp. The army was not 
yet quite over the river. The Lieutenant Colonel was ex- 
ceedingly fearful these movements among the pickets would 
draw the attention of the enemy. It was a long time grow- 
ing light, but now at length it was broad-day, when, not too 
soon, the order came to hasten to the bridges. The regi- 
ment was hastily collected together. Lentz, with his men 
and the sharp-shooters, were to remain until the One Hun- 
dred and Twenty-Sixth should begin to move down the road 
to town and then fall in as skirmishers on the flank and rear. 
All this was happily executed (with one oversight), and the 
regiment, double-quicking, entered the town, found the low- 
er bridge taken away, hastened to the upper bridge, without 
stopping for the knapsacks which had been stored when 
about to proceed to the charge. This bridge had also been 
swung out into the river, but was nowput back, and the regi- 
ment crossed over to the other side. Then the brido-e was 
agam cut loose and Fredericksburg was abandoned by the 
Union army. The One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth was the 
last regiment to cross. 

But Captain Lentz with six of his men was in the block- 
house. Lieutenant Bonsall, of F, the officer sent to Avith- 
draw the pickets and convey the orders to Lentz, had 
mistaken his lieutenant for him, and he was in utter ig- 
norance of what was doing. Here he remained some 
time alone (he and his six men) of ajl the army, in front 
of the enemy. A rebel soldier, approaching cautiously, 
found six guns suddenly thrust out at him, and surren- 
dered. Brought into the block-house he surprised Lentz 
with the news of the evacuation of Fredericksburg. Look- 



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BACK IN CAMP. 0\ 

ing out he saw the TJnion line deserted and the rebels 
o^atherins: towards the block-house. He left suddenly with 
his prisoner, down the steep hill, across the caual, through 
the edge ot the town, the other end of which was swarm- 
ing with rebels, hid behind the abutment of the destroyed 
bridge, until a gallant little fellow, a drummer, swam across 
for a skiff, which, brought back, saved most of Lentz's party. 
The morning of the 16th the regiment breakfasted in the 
pine woods where it had bivouacked the night of the 12th, 
and after noon settled down in the former camp. It left 
camp with twenty-six officers and six hundred and six men, 
but company I, having been detached as hospital guard, did 
not participate in the action. 

A few days after the battle of Fredericksburg, the Rev. 
John Ault joined the regiment as Chaplain. He remained 
with it, however, only until the 18th of January, when the 
mud-march was begun, at which time, being sick, he went 
home on leave, and did not rejoin the command again until 
it arrived at Harrisburg for muster-out. Until the mud- 
march the life in camp was monotonous and devoid of ex- 
citement. The courts-martial of Lieutenants Cook and 
Hornbaker, of the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth, and af- 
terwards of Colonels Frick and Armstrong, of the One Hun- 
dred and Twenty-Mnth, which grew out of the dress-coat 
difficulty, alone gave any zest to it. Lieutenants Cook and 
Hornbaker left the regiment at Antietam after the battle, 
when the regiment was under orders to move, and went home, 
sick, with the Surgeon's leave — but there was want of for- 
mality in procuring the leaves of absence. Though both un- 
doubtedl}' sick and wholly unfit for duty in the field, they 
failed to send to the headquarters of the regiment the cer- 
tificates required by regulations and orders. They were ac- 
cordingly found guilty and dismissed, and left as the com- 
mand started on the mud-march. The dismissal of Lieuten- 
ant Cook, upon a full presentation ot his case, was after- 





/6 ^ DRESS-COATS. 25 A 

wards, and after the master out of the regiment, justly re- 
voked by order of the President. It is to his credit, that 
being under arrest at the time of the battle of Fredericks- 
burg, he asked permission to have his sword and command 
restored in order to his taking part in the battle, which was 
refused. Lieutenant Hornbaker made no effort to have his 
sentence reversed, bnt subsequently entered the army as a 
private and effaced whatever stain there was upon his re- 
cord, if any, by his death on the field of battle. 

The .difficulty about the dress-coats, Avhich was quite 
an episode in the life of the regiment, was succinctly 
this: About the 10th of January, 1863, General Humphreys 
issued an order that all the men should draw dress-coats. 
IsTow, whatever clothing the men drew above a prescribed 
quantity, they were charged with, and they were alrea- 
dy amply provided with blouses and warm under-cloth- 
ing. Dress-coats were superfluous for comfort. This was 
represented to the Division General, but he clung to his 
caprice, and the men refused to take the coats. The regi- 
mental and compan}' commanders were placed in an awk- 
ward position. The order was arbitrary, but it was imper- 
ative. They finally refused to compel their men, and were 
placed in arrest. They were, in the end, forced to yield 
and made the necessary requisitions, and the men took the 
coats off their hands, but threw them away, and the only 
effect of the order was to subtract several dollars from each 
man's pay. The Colonel and Lieutenant Colonel of the One 
Hundred and Twenty-Ninth remained contumacious, were 
placed in arrest, tried and dismissed the service, but were 
restored again by the President, and wrote in their vindica- 
tion a book called "Red Tape and Pigeon Hole Generals." 

But now the time had come for Burnside to move again. 
At 2| o'clock, P. M., of Tuesday, the 20th of January, the 
brigade to which the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth was 
attached (Tyler's) marched out of camp and journeyed two 

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miles on tlie famous mud-marcli. Towards evening it be- 
gan to rain and continued to rain all night, sometimes with 
much violence. The men were drenched; the roads were 
made dreadful. It rained the next day, during which the 
command made some four miles. On the 22nd, the brigade 
lay in a woods where it had encamped the night before. 
This day there was no forward movement. The afternoon 
was employed in making corduroy road. There was no 
thought of going ahead; how to get back was the question. 
Pontoon trains, w^agons, guns, ammunition trains, encumber- 
ed the roads. Horses and mules were everywhere flounder- 
ing in the mud. The soil, though tenacious, was with- 
.out bottom. The supply trains could not be brouglit up. 
The whole army, therefore, was put to corduroying. Regi- 
ments could be seen coming across the country like moving 
groves, every man carrying a tree top. So Birnam Wood 
once came to Dunsinane. 

"Let every soldier hew him down a hough, 
And hear 't before him." 

Behind came others bearing the rails of rifled fences. The 
branches thrown into the mud made a bed for the rails. 
Whole woods were cut down and thrown into the road. On 
Friday, whiskey rations were issued to the command, and 
the same work was continued. At length, on Saturday, the 
24th, the brigade marched back over the road it had helped 
to make to the former camp, and so the mud-march ended. 
Burnside after this resigned, and Hooker became command- 
er of the Army of the Potomac. General Meade was 
assigned to the command of the Fifth Corps. 

For three months all grarfd military operations ceased. 
In this interval, however, the troops Avere constantly and en- 
ergetically drilled and disciplined. The ranks were tilled 
up. Clothing was furnished, and excellent food in abun- 
dance. A system of furloughs was instituted. From the 
let of February till the Ist of May, tlie regiment daily grew 
better in physique and morale. 

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On Monday, tlie 2d of February, Tyler's brigade was 
transferred from the camp it had hitherto occupied, near 
Falmouth, to another a mile or two further West, where were 
greater conveniences of wood and water. The new location 
WU8 a very beautiful as well as advantageous one. The re- 
giments were in the woods, on the sides of gently sloping 
hills, at the ^ot of which ran a stream of clear water. The 
One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth and One Hundred and 
Twenty-Ninth were placed side by side and over against the 
Ninety-First and One Hundred and Thirty-Fourth, on the 
other side of the stream. Brigade head-quarters were near 
by, on a bluff, amidst cedars. This camp was the home of the 
regiment during the remainder of its term of service. Three 
quiet months were passed here in picket and drill, and in- 
spection and parade; in eating,* sleeping, smoking; in going 
to camps, and hurdle-races and home (as to some); in draw- 
ing rations and washing, and writing love-letters; in roll- 
calls and reviews; in camp and hospital guard, and burials 
of the dead with mutiled drum. 

Among the occurrences of this time which excited a lively 
interest in the men of the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth 
regiment, was the presentation. to General Tyler, by the men 
and officers of his brigade, of a magnificent young horse, 
named "Young Salem," of "Grey Eagle" stock, pure white, 
and superbly beautiful, — bought in Ohio for a large sum, — 
together with the necessary trappings and housings, and a 
splendidly mounted sword and spurs. The visit, also, of 
Governor Andrew G. Curtin, in March, and the subsequent 
review by General Polardi, a Swiss officer of rank, served 
to relieve the tedium of the days. 

About the 25th of February, Stuart pressed back our ca- 
valry out-posts, which created some excitement in camp. 
The regiment was hastily forwarded to the picket line, and 
kept under arms all night — a night which will remain long 
in the memories of the men on duty. "It snowed and 

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blowed," said thev upon their return, "and we marched in 

I a circle all night long through the snow and mud*to keen 

warm," '^ 

The 22d of February was duly observed by the firino- of 
cannon in the morning, which, naturally enough, was mis- 
taken a first for a fierce attack by the enemy.. But the re- 
pose at head-quarters, and the absence of gay Aids hurrying 
with sharp messages, quieted all such apprehensions On 
this anniversary of the birth of Washington, celebrated by 
the Army of the Potomac, in the midst of a great war for 
the Union which he founded, an echo in every soldier's 
breast responded to the loud acclaims of the deep-mouthed 
cannon. 

At Head-Qmrters of the mgimeat: On the 25th of Feb 
ruary. Lieutenant Colonel Eowe was made President of a 
court-martial and military commission which sat at the 
head-quarters of Allabach's brigade, and remained on this 
special duty until the 17th of March, when betook com- 
mand of the brigade for ten days. During this period, Cap- 
tain Andrew E. Davison, the senior captain present, com- 
manded the regiment. On the 31st of March, Captain Rob- 
ert b. Brownson, of Company C, was mustered in as Ma- 
jor, and assumed command as such. Adjutant John Stew- 
art was appointed by General Humphreys, on the 11th of 
April, Commissary of Musters for the Thii-d Division Fifth 
Corps and Lieutenant George F. Piatt acted as Adjutant 
hereafter. In April, Assistant Surgeon Grube was trans- 
ferred to the Sixth Corps. B. B. Henshey, the Hospital 
Steward, haying been discharged on account of disability 
on the 1st of the same month, Lewis Keyser was appointed 
to fid_ his place. Xugent, resting from the amputations and 
dressings of Fredericksburg, and the Assistant Surgeon, 
Swift, dealt out, at the hour of the Surgeon's call, the daily 
portions of quinine and calomel; while Nil], the Quartei-- 
master, and his aids, Allison and Kinsler, (what time the 





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reveille bad summoned the men from their downless couches 
to the labors of the day,) devoted themselves assiduously 
to the diurnal duty of issuing bard-tack and pork. The Ser- 
geant Major, Ziegler, was busy in the Adjutant's quarters 
with the morning reports, or flitting about the camp with 
unwelcome details for pickefrior guard. Miller and Dono- 
van, and their comrade musicians, were ever and anon, 
throughout the day, sounding their too-accustomed calls; 
and Tommy Daily and Kauflman, the color-sergeants, at 
the hour of dress-parade, brought out the colors which they 
carried so gallantly up the heights of Fredericksburg, and 
which they were destined to wave so lightly in the face of 
the enemy in the dark woods about Chancellorsville. 

In the Companies : In February, Captain William H. Da- 
vison was appointed Assistant Inspector General on the 
Staff of General Tyler, and detached thenceforth until the 
muster out of the regiment. The command of the compa- 
ny devolved on Lieutenant James Pott; the First Lieuten- 
ant, Henry M. Hoke, having been made Division Ordnance 
Officer in October, 1.862, and detached on the staff of Gene- 
ral Humphreys. On the promotion of Brownson, James 
P." M'Cullough was advanced to Captain from First Lieu- 
tenant, to which he had been promoted on the discharge of 
Hornbaker. The First-Lieutenancy remained vacant. Lieu- 
tenant Trout, in command of a detachment of thirty men, 
was on duty at the General Hospital, Stoneman's Switch, 
from the 16th of January till the 16th of March. John H. 
Reed resigned the captaincy of company D in January, and 
Josiah C. Hollinger was its commander subsequently, with 
Piatt as First Lieutenant and McCauley as Second. All the 
officers of company LI were absent on account of wounds 
for two months succeeding the battle of Fredericksburg, and 
in the interval of their absence. Lieutenant Walker, of E, 
first, and afterwards Lieutenant McWilliams, of F, was as- 
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Zook was made Second Lieutenant of company G in the 
place of Harry Fortescue, mourned by his company. Lieu- 
tenant liovve commanded A. R. Davison's company while 
the hitter had charge of the regiment, and John W. P. Eeid 
was for a while Aml)ulance Officer. Company A was kept 
small by details from it, and Dcebler was much missed by 
his rnen, but his absence was not resrretted more by them 
than by Welsh and McLenegan, his Lieutenants. Captain 
William W. Walker, enjoying a better fortune than most 
others, obtained from General Hooker a leave of absence for 
twenty days for the benefit of his health, and hied him off 
to Waynesboro', leaving George Walker and Brenneman to 
look after company E. This was before the epoch of "leaves" 
and furloughs. George L. Miles and McCurdy were accus- 
tomed, in these peaceful times, to take a quiet delight in ex- 
ercising their men in the manual of arms; and while Martin 
of I watched with fatherly care over his men, and Davis 
amused himself with the drill, the honest Lieutenant Deg-an 
enjoyed himself often on extra and special duty. 

Lieutenant Bonsall, of Captain Wharton's company, was 
in arrest from the time of the battle of Fredericksbure: un- 
til the 29th of January, on the following charge and specifi- 
cation : 

Charge: Failure to deliver orders entrusted to him by his com- 
manding officer for delivery. 

Specification: In this, tliat he, the said Lieutenant James C. Bonsall, 
of company F, One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth Pennsylvania 
Volunteers, whilst his company and regiment were on picket 
duty to the front and left of Fredericksburg, having been order- 
ed by Lieutenant Colonel D. Watson Rowe, the officer com- 
manding his regiment, to communicate an order of Brigadier 
General Humphreys' to the commanding officer of the Berdan 
Sharp-shooters, and to the commanding officer of a company of 
the Ninety-First Pennsylvania Infantry, on the picket line held 
by the said One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth regiment, in rela- 
tion to the withdrawal of the said sharp-shooters and the said 
company of the Ninety-First, did fail to deliver said order to the 
commanding officer of the said comi^any. This at or about 6 
o'clock A. M., of the 16th day of December, 1862. g/ 









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This charge was tried by a court-martial, and Lieutenant 
Bonsall was not found wholly' blameless, but was restored 
to duty. His duties during the entire night of the 15th were 
of an arduous and dangerous character, being constantly 
sent with orders along the picket line, withdrawing and re- 
placing the men; yet he performed them with fidelity and 
alacrity. The blame principally attached, in the opinion of 
the Court-Martial, to the officer ot Lentz's party to whom 
Bonsall communicated the order, after asking for the officer 
commanding the party, and being referred to him as such, 
and who failed to notify his captain of its reception; and 
they found him guilty and inflicted uj)on him a sentence of 
extraordinary severity. This, however, General Humphreys 
did not approve. In consequence of the failure to receive 
Colonel Rowe's order, Lentz and his men were in great dan- 
ger, and some of them were captured, as before narrated. 

Many other things occurred in this interval between the 
battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, which it 
would be pleasant to relate, l)ut the limits of a brief Sketch 
forbid. 

The Changes in the Rank and File of the Companies: Who, 
among the thousand men, was killed; who was wounded; 
who nobly died; who meanly deserted; who was discharged 
or taken prisoner; who was promoted and who reduced, will 
be found in the following pages in a compact shape. In the 
List of Casualties are gathered the heroes of the battles. 
But not all of them; for many brave men escaped unharm- 
ed — too many to be mentioned by name. Many gallant 
deeds of officers and men must remain unwritten, to be told 
and talked of by the cheerful fire of a winter's night; and 
many interesting stories and laughable incidents and, per- 
haps, some pitiful tales, like that of Susan S. Edringtou, 
— the sweet young lady of seventeen summers, who died on 
the picket line — must be reserved for those private recitals. 

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forged, each liuk of which, like a morniug drum-beat 
to a spectral army, will call up before the minds of the 
participants in the scenes described, a thousand departed 
and long-forgotten associations connected with bivouac and 
battle. 

On Monday, the 27th of April, Lieutenant Colonel Rowe 
received orders to be readv to move the reo-iment at 12 M., 
and at that hour the march was taken up for Chancellors- 
ville. The effective of the regiment was twenty-nine offi- 
cers and five hundred and seventy-seven men; but Captain 
W. W. Walker's company having been detailed for guard 
duty, was temporarily detached from the regiment, decreas- 
ing its strength by three officers and fifty-six men. Pro- 
ceediug up the river on Monday and Tuesda}^, the Rappa- 
hannock was crossed on Wednesday, at Kelly's Ford, by 
means of pontoons. Crossing Mountain creek the same eve- 
ning and halting long in the darkness of the night, on 
Thursday, the 30th, the Rapidan was passed at Ely's Ford. 
It was an inspiring sight — the crossing of the Rapidan. The 
long column moving down into the swift river, stretching 
across and far up the long and gentle ascent on the south- 
ern side; the men wading arm-pit deep, clothes and car- 
tridge boxes swinging on the bayonets of the guns held well 
up in the air. Having encamped over night in a wood of 
thick-standing pines, on the 1st of May, (Friday,) the direct 
road to Chancellorsville was taken, and shortly before noon 
the regiment, with the brigade, was massed by the side of 
the Chancellor House, a solitary large brick dwelling, on an 
open clearing of some three hundred yards in extent each 
way, in the margin of the Wilderness, which constitutes 
Chancellorsville. Precisely at 12 M., the first gun of the 
great fight opened. Three roads run east from Chancel- 
lorsville towards Fredericksburg: on the right, the plank 
road; to its left, the turnpike, uniting with the former at 
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river, a road leading to Bank's Ford. Slocuni's corps took 
the plank road, Sykes' division the turnpike, and Meade, 
with Griffin's and Humphreys' divisions, advanced on the 
river road for five miles and came within sight of Bank's^ 
Ford. Thus this ford was uncovered and a position obtained 
out of the Wilderness on a commandino; rido;e. As sud- 
denly as unaccountably the three columns were ordered 
back. Tyler's brigade hastened back at the double-quick 
the whole distance to Chancellorsville, and came in just as 
Sykes was arriving, skirmishing hotly with the enemy who 
had followed him closely. Tyler was just able to get in 
without becoming engaged. On Friday evening, the One 
Hundred and Twenty-Sixth, with the brigade, lay quite near 
the Chancellor House, being on the left of the line of bat- 
tle, which stretched along the Orange plank road, west- 
ward about four miles. On Saturday, Humphreys was mov- 
ed back near to the Rappahannock, to the vicinity of Scott's 
Dam, and held a formidable position there on high and steep 
bluffs, which he lined with artillery. Here the One Hun- 
dred and Twenty-Sixth lay during Saturday and Saturday- 
night, whilst Jackson made his famous onslaught on the Elev- 
enth and Twelfth Corps. The enemy occasionally sliowed 
himself on this part of the line, but made no attack or ad- 
vance. Early on Sunday morning, however, Tyler's bri- 
gade was moved down from the heights which it held, and 
hurried to the right. Along the road lay the Eleventh 
.Corps greatly shattered, ready to occupy the position evac- 
uated. 

About eight o'clock Tyler reached the open ground and 
the road running from Chancellorsville to Ely's Ford, and 
prepared at once for action. In the hasty march to the 
right, about thirty men of the regiment had seized the op- 
portunity to drop out among the men of the Eleventh Corps, 
and the Lieutenant Colonel commanding having ordered 
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responded to their names; but they were to be relied upon, 
and the regiment was still comparatively large. Shortly the 
order came to move into position in the line of battle, and 
Lieutenant Colonel Webb, of General Meade's staff — across 
the open space swept by the batteries, down into the dense 
woods a good distance — led the brigade and placed it on the 
right of General French, whom it was to support, and under 
his orders. Captain TV. W. Walker's company having been 
detached as before-mentioned, did not participate in the ac- 
tion, but a few of its men went in with Wm. IT. Davison's 
company. 

The brigade was just getting into position on the right of 
French, (in the order from right to left of iN'inety-First, One 
Hundred and Thirty-Fourth, One Hundred and Twenty- 
Sixth, and One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth,) when a scout 
brought word to Colonel Rowe, which was at once commu- 
nicated to General Tyler, that the enemy was hurrying 
masses to the right and would advance to the attack at once. 
At the same moment, almost, the brigade opened iire on 
the right, and in a few minutes the entire line was engaged. 
During the whole of this action the right of Tyler's brigade 
was "in the air." ISTo troops whatever were in position 
on Its right flank, and there was nothing to protect that 
flank or prevent its being turned. The First Corps was not 
yet in place so as to join it. French, therefore, was on the 
left; nothing was on the right of this brigade. Stuart, now 
in command — in place of Jackson, shot the night before — ^ 
was pushing his forces to Tyler's unprotected right, and 
beyond it. 

From the first the firing of the brigade was very rapid. 
The enemy, in the dense woods and thicket, were not very 
clearly seen by the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth, nor 
did they for some time reply actively at this part of the line. 
Colonel Rowe, therefore, sent first the Sergeant Major, 
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General Tyler to inform him that the fire did not seem to 
be eftective, and that the enemy appeared to await the time 
when the ammunition should be exhausted, for their charge — 
stating that it was already very low and requesting that the 
firing should cease or at least slacken. But General Tyler, 
having the whole line and all its exigencies in view, ordered 
the firing to be kept up, saying "Your men are doing ex- 
cellently, Colonel." At length, after more than an hour's 
hard work, the ammunition was spent, and the men were be- 
ginning to rifle the cartridge-boxes of the dead and wound- 
ed to supply themselves. The enemy now evidently began 
to press forward more earnestly; their banners advanced 
through the woods; their fire began to tell fearfully on the 
ranks of the regiment. The gaps, however, were speedily 
closed, and the line was firm. The company officers were 
very diligent and active. Major Brownson, in the Lieuten- 
ant Colonel's place on the right, and Captain A. R. Davi- 
son, acting Major, on the left, increased their exertions. 
Adjutant Stewart (now Division Commissary of Musters 
and detached, but participating in the action with the regi- 
ment), and Acting Adjutant George F. Piatt, aided Brown- 
son and Davison, respectively, with coolness and eficct. Col- 
onel Rowe was everywhere along the line with words of 
encouragement. But every moment it became more evi- 
dent that unless ammunition arrived soon, the line could not 
long be held. Colonel Rowe was cut in the check with a rifle- 
ball. Major Brownson's clothes were pierced with bullets. 
Lieutenant J. Gilmore Rowe, commanding company K, was 
borne from the field badly wounded in the head. Captain 
Walker of li was struck. Men were falling all along the line. 
On the right, company C had lost full one-fourth of the men 
McCullough took in. Company 1, on the left, had suftered 
nearly as much, and company IT even more severely. Gene- 
ral Tyler now sent word that ammunition was not to be had 
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I to retire in as good order as possible Avhen the ammunition 
should be entirely exhausted. Still the enemy pressed 
harder and harder in front. 

Such was the state of aftaira in the One Hundred and 
Twenty-Sixth, when Stuart, having turned the right of the 
brigade and taken it in reverse, was pouring down his troops 
on the right and rear, filling all the woods. The Ninety- 
First regiment was first struck, and to avoid capture fell 
back. Then in turn the One Hundred and Thirty-Fourth, 
next in line to the right, gave way. This left the right flank 
of the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth exposed. To change 
front in that dense thicket was impossible, even if the im- 
petuous charge which the regiment was now^ sustaining in 
front would have permitted. The line was held, however, 
till the last minute — till the rebels on the flank were within 
forty yards; then, from right to left, the line melted away 
in the thick woods, and emerging upon the cleared space 
beyond, re-formed behind the battery. Lieutenants Fletcher 
and McCauley, and Sergeant Lesher, with a number of men, 
became mixed with the enemy and were captured. The re- 
bels pressed closely after to the edge of the clearing and 
showed themselves on the open ground, but the guns open- 
ing upon them with grape and canister, they speedily dis- 
appeared in the shadow of the forest. 

The same fate with the other regiments befell the One 
Hundred and Twenty-jSTinth, which stood on the left of the 
line next to French's men. In its turn it was swept back, 
but so mingled did its men become with the enemy that 
there was a hand to hand tussle for the colors, which, how- 
ever, were safelv borne oft" at last. Having re-formed be- 
hind the battery, which stood near the small white house 
along the road to Ely's Ford, the regiment remained there 
in support of it, until the First Corps got well into their 
j position on the right of the line, when it was withdrawn 
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tance into the woods, where it remained until tlie return 
movement began. 

The night of May the 5th, (Tuesday,) Avas a hard and 
gloomy one. It rained violently. The commissary stores 
were burnt. The army was falling back across the river. 
Agjiin all sacritices had been in vain. The men lay or sat 
about all night long awaiting momentarily the order to move 
to the rear. It came at daylight. In the forenoon of the 
6th, the swollen stream was crossed on pontoons at United 
States Ford, and after a fatiguing march of twelve miles, 
through deep mud, the site of the old camp, whence the 
regiment started on the Chancellorsville campaign, was 
reached, and it was done with marching and fighting. 

A quiet week in camp succeeded the battle of Chancel- 
lorsville. ■ The term of service of the regiment was about 
to expire. General Tyler assembled it, and publicly extolled 
the conduct of the men in both the great actions in which 
they participated. Tuesday, the 12th of May, was a day of 
leave-taking in camp. There was a great visiting among the 
regiments, and the General's quarters were crowded all day. 
At six o'clock in the morning of Wednesday, May 13, 1863, 
the regiment took cars at Stoneman's Station for Aquia 
Landing, and ceased to belong to the Army of the Poto- 
mac. At Aquia, the boat Warner lay ready to convey the 
men to Washington, where, after a beautiful ride up the 
Potomac, they arrived, and went to the Soldiers' Retreat, 
blessing, all the way, James Watt and those who helped him 
bring about, for purposes of locomotion, the substitution of 
steam and iron for human will and muscle. The next fore- 
noon the cars carried them to Baltimore. At dark they con- 
tinued their homeward journe}' to Harrisburg. At 7 o'clock 
in the morning of Friday, the 15th, the regiment marched, 
with drums beating and fla2:s flying, through Harrisburg to 
Camp Curtin. The comrades, free from restraint, gay and 
happy, enjoyed themselves about the town or in the camp, 



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for several days, while the officers were busy with the prepa- 
ration of the muster-out rolls. At length, on Weduesclay, 
the 20th of May, the companies were mustered out of ser- 
vice, the men received their pay and discharges, and, with 
icordial hand-shakings, separated and started home. The 
companies from Juniata were welcomed at Mifflntown, and 
those from Franklin countv received a great ovatioli at 

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Chambersburg. Each town and tov/nship beside gave a 
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pENERAL E, ^. TyLER'S RePORT 

OF THE PART TAKEN BY HIW BPvIGADE IN THE BATTLE OF 

FREDERICKSBURG. 



Headquarters Tyler's Brigade, 

Third Division, Fifth Corps, 
Camp in the Field, December 16th, 1862. 
Captain Cars'll M'Clellan, 

Assistciiif Adjxitant General, Third Division: 

Captain:— I have the honor to report the following as the part 
taken by my brigade in the engagement at Fredericksburg, for the 
information of the commanding General. 

We marched from our bivouac on the morning of the 13th instant, 
with the Ninety-First Pennsylvania Infantry— twenty-three officers 
and four hundred and one men; the One Hundred and Thirty- 
Fourth Pennsylvania Infantry— twenty-four officers and five hun- 
dred and eighteen men; the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth Penn- 
sylvania Infantry— twenty-six officers and six hundred and six men; 
and the One Hundred and Twenty -Ninth Pennsylvania Infantry— 
twenty-six officers and five hundred and seventy-five men; making 
a total of ninety-nine officers and two thousand one hundred enlisted 
men. From the time we left camp until we Avere ordered into 
action, no opportunity was aflTorded the regimental commanders to 
have further calls, but such efforts were made to prevent straggling 
as to induce me to believe that with the exception of the regimental 
details of twelve men in charge of knapsacks [and Captain INIartin's 
company of the One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth, detailed us hospi- 
tal guard, numbering two officers and sixty -three men,] my brigade 
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A list of the casualties of the different regiments, prepared with 
great ea;-e, I herewith send you, making my total loss four officers 
and forty-six men killed, twenty-nine officers and two hundred and 
ninety-four men wounded, and eighty-three men missing. Of the 
latter I have good reason to believe a large majority were either killed 
or severely wounded. 

The position first assigned us was on the right of the plank-road, 
subjected to an enfilading fire from the enemy's batteries on the crest 
of the hill beyond. Our loss at this point is accounted for as "miss- 
ing in action." Being almost immediately ordered across the road 
into the engagement, we were unable to account for them otherwise. 
I was delayed somewhat in the formation of a double line of bat- 
tle on the left of the road by the constant passing of limbers to the 
front and rear, and the deep mud along the line indicated to form 
on. As soon, however, as the formation was complete, the order to 
sound the charge was given, the caution having been previously 
communicated to the command not to fire a gun until orders were 
received from me. 

The brigade moved forward in as good order as the muddy condi- 
tion of the ground on the left of my line would admit, until we 
came upon a body of officers and men lying flat upon the ground in 
front of the brick house and along the slight elevation on its right 
and left. Upon our approach, these officers commanded "Halt!" 
flourishing their swords as they lay, while a number of their men en- 
deavored to intimidate our troops, crying out that we would be 
slaughtered, and the like. An effort was made to get them out of 
the way but failed, and we marched over them, and when within a 
very short distance of the enemy's line a fire was opened on our 
rear, which wounded a few of our most valuable officers and, I re- 
gret to say, killed some of our men. 

Instantaneously, the cry ran along the line that we were being 
fired into from the rear. The command halted, receiving at the same 
time a terrible fire from the enemy. Orders for the moment were 
forgotten, and a fire from our whole line was immediately returned. 
Another cry passed along the line, that we were being fired upon 
from the rear, when our men, after giving the enemy several volleys 
fell back. 

It will be impossible for me in this report to mention the maiiy 
acts of heroism on that bloody field, but it is due the officers and 
men to state that they performed their duties well, and they need no 
higher encomium than to know that their conduct on the field was 
highly complimented by their Division and Grand Division Com- 
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Colonel O'Brien, One Hundred and Thirty-Fourth, led the right 
front; Colonel Frick, One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth, tlie left. 
I Colonel Elder, One Hundred and Twenty-Sixtli, held the right rear, 
I and Colonel Gregory, Ninety-First, the left rear. These officers dis- 
charged their respective duties creditably and satisfactorily, their 
voices being frequently heard above the din of battle, urging on their 
men against the terrible shower of shot and shell and, last but not 
least, the terrific musketry as we approached the stone wall. Of 
their conduct, I can not speak too highly. Lieutenant Colonel 
Rowe, Lieutenant Colonel Armstrong and Major Anthony, and Ma- 
jor Tlionii>s()n, are entitled to great credit for their efforts and oflicer- 
like conduct during the engagement. • 

Colonel Elder received a serious wound, (fracture of the thigh) 
and was carried off the field, Lieutenant Colonel Rowe assuming 
command. Colonel Gregory received a very slight wound in the 
hand. Major Tod, of the Ninety-First, lost his right leg from a shell 
just before the charge was sounded. I fear it will cost him his life. 
He was a brave and valuable officer. Adjutant Reed, of the One 
Hundred and Thirty-Fourth, received a serious wound in the thigh, 
whilst at tlie head of his regiment. Lieutenant Colonel Armstrong 
liad a horse shot under him. Adjutant Green, of the One-Hundred 
and Twenty-Ninth, exhibited great coolness in the discharge of his 
duty. Captains Leib, Taylor, Breckenridge, Lawrence, Hague, 
Lyon, Walker, M'Cready, and Doebler, were very severely wounded, 
and Colonel O'Brien had a very narrow escape — a ball passing 
through his saddle from front to rear directly under him. 

It may not be improper for me to say that Captain Thomas, Acting 

Inspector General on the staff of the Division Commander, having 

liis liorse shot and thus j^revented from serving him, joine^i his com- 

j pany in the One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth, and was severely 

wounded while leading his men in the charge. 

I desire to call the particular attention of the Commanding Gene- 
ral to the accompanying reports from the regimental commanders 
relative to the credital)le conduct of the officers and men of their re- 
spective regiments. 
I take pleasure in being able to report that the Medical Depart- 
I ment of the command was well and ably conducted, and although 
I a number of medical officers were absent, our wounded were well 
and promptly attended to, under the personal supervision of the 
Acting Medical Director, Dr. M'Kinney, assisted by Acting Brigade 
Surgeon, Nugent. 
, Colonel M. S. Quay, late of the One- Hundred and Thirty-Fourth 

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greatly indebted. Notwitlistanding his enfeebled health, he was in 
the saddle early and late, ever prompt and efficient, and especially 
so during the engagement. To my staff, who were with me, Cap- 
tain H. C. Ranney, A. A. G., and Lieutenant J. B. Diehl, A.D. C, 
do I owe much for their promptness and untiring efforts during the 
entire six days and nights we were under arms. 
I am, very respectfully. 

Your obedient servant 
i^^S^^^^l) . E. B. TYLER, 

Brigadier General Commanding. 



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OF THE PART TAKEN BY HI.S BRIGADE IN THE BATTLE OK 

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Headquarters First- Brigade, ^ 

Third Division, Fifth Corps, > 
Camp near Falmouth, Virginia, May lOfh, 1863. j 

Captain Cars'll M'Clellan, 

Assistant Adjutant General, Third Division: 

- Captain:— I have the honor to transmit herewith a list of the 

casualties of my command in the action of tlie 3d inst, and also to 

submit the following report of the part taken by my brigade in that 

engagement: 

About nine o'clock, A. M., I received an order from Major Ctene- 
ral Meade to put my command in motion and go to the support of 
(Jeneral Freneli; Lieutenant Colonel Webb to indicate tlie position 
we were to occupy. That officer in person pointed out the line we 
were to take possession of, directly in tlie face of the enemy and on 
tlie right of General Frencli's command in tlie woods. 

The regiments Avere scarcely in position until tlie enemy opened 
tire upon us, which was promptly and effectively returned by our 
men. I saw at once that the enemy out-numbered us, as they were 
in double lines and extended beyond our right. T immediately 
asked for reinforcements, but was informed that tliey could not l)e 
furnisiied. Colonel Webb, who had remained in front for some mo- 
ments, started baclt promising to bring up reinforcements if he could 
obtain tliem, but he returned in a sliort time witliout them. 

The rapid and incessant fire of our men prevented the enemy from 
advancing, although they made several efforts to do so. Holding our 
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our ammunitiou was being exhausted, many of the men supplying 
themselves from the bodies of the dead and wounded. About this 
time I tliscovered the enemy were receiving reinforcements. Anoth- 
er double line was plainly seen advancing and extencUng further to 
our right. I sent for amnninition twice without being able to ob- 
tain it. (As I afterwards understood it had not come up from the 
rear.) I reported the fact to General French with the further infor- 
mation that the enemy were pressing us and asked for orders. He 
replied that he could not furnish me with ammunition, and to retire 
in as good order as I could when we should have exhausted what we 
had. 

The moment our tire slackened, the enemy pushed forward with 
at least twice our numbers. As near as I can tell we were in i^osi- 
tion from an hour to an hour and three-quarters before w-e were 
forced to retire. During this time the whole line was nnder my eye 
and I have to say that I never saw oflicers and men behave with 
more bravery and coolness than did the entire command. The offi- 
cers were verj- active and I saw many of them aiding the men by 
preparing their cartridges for the guns. The field officers were pass- 
ing up and down the lines encouraging their men with great spirit 
and coolness. 

The Ninety-First regiment was on our right and received the first 
fire of the enemy. They are entitled to great credit for their con- 
duct during the action. Colonel Gregory received a shght wound ' 
early in the engagement and left tbe field, yet the men kept well at 
their work under Lieutenant Colonel Sinex. The One Hundred and 
Thirty-Fourth, Colonel O'Brien, was second in line, and no set of 
men could have behaved better. The officers, one and all, following 
the example of their Colonel (who was constantly on the alert) were 
very active and not a man shirked his duty. 

The One Hundred and Twenty-Sixth, Lieutenant Colonel Eowe, 
was third in line, and for earnest, spirited work they could not be ex- 
celled. Colonel Eowe exhibited the true characteristics of a soldier 
— brave, cool and determined, and his spirit was infused into every 
officer and soldier of his command. The One Hundred and Twent^-- 
Nintli was on our left, and no man ever saw cooler work on Jicld 
drill than was done by this regiment. Their firing was grand, by 
rank, by company, and by wing, in perfect order. Colonel Frick's 
stentorian voice was heard above the roar of musketry, and with the 
aid of his Lieutenant Colonel and Major his regiment was splendidly 
handled, doing their dut\- well. 

Too much credit cannot be given the officers and men of the bri- 
gade. Xot a single neglect came under my notice dnring the en- 
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were carried well to the front, and I saw them defiantly waived in the 
face of the enemy. 

The officers of my Staff, Captains H. C. Ranney and William H. 
Davison, Lieutenants Diehl and Tyler, rendered me every assistance 
in their power under an incessant fire. 

Among the officers seriously wounded I have with regret to men- 
tion Major Anthony of the One Hundred and Twenty-Ninth, a true 
soldier and a dutiful officer. Lieutenant Colonels Howe and hJhaw 
were slightlj' wounded, as was Lieutenant Diehl, Aid-de-camp. 
I have the honor (o be, very respectfully 
Your obedient servant 
(Signed) E. B. TYLER, 

Brigadier General Commanding. 






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List of Casualties 

in the one hundred and twenty-sixth pvegiment pennsyii- 

vania volunteers, at fredericksburg, virginia, 

december 13th, 1862. 







FIELD AND STAFF. 

Colonel .James (t. P^.lder, "Woimdod seveivly in tiiiuli. 

COMPANY A. 

WOITNDED. KILLED AND MlSSlXCi. 

Captain .John Doebler. Corporal Thomas Ct. Pilkinuton, k 

Corjioral Emanuel Forney. .fohn S. Oaks, k 

Thomas D. French. " D. Augustus Houser, k 

George Goettman. I). Frank M'Louglilin, k 

Benjamin K. Goodyear. David Newman, k 

Jacob Lightcap. Abraham Reitzell, k 

David C. M'Gaughey. Jacob B. Shafer, K 

Harris J. Renfrew. David AV. Washabaugh, n< 
Jacob Martin. 

< "OMPANY B. 

WOrXDEI). KILLKD AND MXSSINC. 

Lieutenant James Pott. .John Taylor, tc 

Corporal Jacob H. Swisher. .Vndrew C Richardson, k 

William Finney. 
Henry Ruthraiiff. 
James H. Woy. 

COMPANY C. 

WOUNDKD. KILLKD AND M(,SSIN<,-. 

Corporal Wm. Hays M'Cleliand. William AV. Brinkley, K 

J. Pjrewer Cusliwa. Dallas p]. Mowen, ic 

Levi P'ritz. 
•lohn Pluston AN'ork. 

CO.M]>ANY D. 

WOUMDKl). KILLKD AXD :\II,SS1N(;. 

Sanniel C. Ledy. Henry Cook. K 

Henry Laman. ^ 

Jolm B. Lindscy. p 




WOUNDEK. 

John h\ Flory. 



LIST OF CA8UALTIK8. 

COMPANY E. 




KILLKD AND MISSING. 

Sergeant Geo. M. D. Brotherton, K 



Daniel C. Hoover, 
S. P. Rouzer, 
Henry F. Barnett, 



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WOUNDED. 

Captain John P. Wharton. 
Corporal Lemuel Warner. 
George Dunn. 
Mortier S. Hench. 
N. S. Hinkle. 
R. A. Laird. 
Samuel Bonsall. 
Samuel Calhoun. 



KILLED AND MISSING. 

Theodore Miller, 



K 



WOUNDED. 

Russell Fields. 
William J. Knight. 
Robert W. M'Intire. 
John S. Shaflfer. 



COMPANY G. 



KILLED AND MISSING. 

Lieutenant Harry C. Fortescue, K 
Laurence Harmon, K 



COMPANY H. 

WOUNDED. KILLED AND MISSING. 

Captain John H. Walker. Jeremiah Brindle, 

Lieutenant Josiah W. Fletcher. Robert F. Elliott, 
Lieutenant William H. Mackey. William H. Rhodes, 
Corporal Calvin J. Gamble. 
Samuel C. Elder. 
Samuel T. M'Clay. 
Jacob F. Reamer. 
Newel D. Stark. 



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COMPANY I. — NOT IN ACTION. 



COMPANY K. 



WOUNDED. 

Sergeant Henry Strickler. 
Sergeant John H. Logue. 
Corporal John M. D. Detrich. 
Corporal David K. Appenzellar. 
George W. Alexander. 
James C. Morehead. 
Cyrus Baughman, 



KILLED AND MISSING. 

Adam C. Bert, K 

George M. Byers, K 

James Mitchel, k 

George W. Shook, K 

Charles H. Shirey, K 

Henry M. Spidel' K 

Joseph Shatzer, k 






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IN THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIXTH :REGIMENT PENNSYT, 
VANIA VOLUNTEERS, AT THE BATTLE OF CHANCELLORSVILLE, 

VIRGINIA, MAY 3, 1863. 



FIELD AND STAFF. 
Lieutenant Colonel D. Watson Eowe, Wounded in face. 

COMPANY A. 



WOUNDED. 

Charles Allison. 



KILLED AND MISSING. 

Robert G. Randall, 



WOXJNDKD. 

George Brunuer. 
Andrew Glenn. 
M. W. Kissecker. 
John Oliver. 
James H. Woy. 



COMPANY B. 



KILLED AND MISSING. 

Sergeant John Brown Lesher, i' 

Jonathan Bowman, k 

C. C. Hagar, m 



COMPANY C. 



WOUNDED. 

Thomas D. Metcalfe. 
David L. Coyle. 
Biyson Bruce. 
George Cole. 
James M'Connell. 
William M'Dowell. 
William E. M'Kinstry. 
James O. Parker. 
Joseph Ripple. 
William M. Starliper. 
John L. Zimmerman. 



KILLED AND MISSING. 

David F. M'Donald, p 

Nicolas C. Trout, k 



WOUNDED. 

Cori)oral Andrew Molby, 
John B. Heart. 
Lewas Monath. 
Adam Nicklas. 



COMPANY D. 



KILLED AND MISSING. 

Lieutenant Clav M'Caulev. 




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COMPANY E.— NOT IN ACTION. 






COMPANY F. 



WOUNDEli. ■ 

(Jorpoiiil Theodore Birch field. 

Jacob Longacre. 

J. L. Shultz. 

John L. Tutton. 

S. H. Whitmer. 

Jerome Weisner. 



KILI,E1) ANU MlSSIXi;. 

John C. Eberts, m 

William Colee, m 

"William Givler, yi 



COMPANY G. 



VVOUNDElt. 

Corporal S. O. B.^M'Curdy. 
Corporal Richard Waters. 
James M'Cartney. 



KILLEU AXli M].s«IN(i. — NONF.. 



COMPANY H. 



WOUNDED. 

Captain John H. Walker. 
(Sergeant Alfred J. Kent. 
William A. Gaston. 
James H. Grey. 
Samuel Lee. 
Andrew A. Ponieroy. 
John Smith. 
Joseph Shafer. 
Calvin M. Skinner. 



KILLED AKD .MISSING. 



Lieutenant Josiah W. Fletcher, i' 
Nicholas M. Bowers, k 

John A. Harris, v 

John M. Coons, v 

John H, Stitt, k 

William Mc. C. VVilsou, p 



IVUlNDEIi, 

Cornelius Bartley. 
T. N. Caruthers." 
George Geedy. 
AVilliam Hawk. 
John B. Henry. 
William H. Mooie. 
]\r. Stumj). 



COMPANY I. 

KII,l.Ef> AND StISSlKC. 

EiJhraim Bell, 
A. H. Fasick, 
William Pattori , 
(George Walls, 



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COMPANY K. 

WOUNDED. ,K1I,I,EI> AND MISSIN'C. 

Lieutenant John Gilmore Rowe. Simon W. Rupley, 
William F. Rupert. George P\ Missavy, 

William H. Snivel v. 



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firld and .^tnff :|j]ffitrrs -— ||^ommi|sionftl. 



NAMES. 



RANK. 



EEMAKKS. 



James G. Elder, 



Colonel. 



David Watson Howe,! LUmt. Col. 



Jume.s (\ Austin, 



Major. 



Robert S. Browiison, j Afajor. 



John Stewart, 

Tliomas J. Mill, 
Washing'iiG. Nug-ent 
Frank Grube, 

Daniel D. Swift, 
Samuel J. Nicoolls, 

-'0 ^3, -t^— 



Adjutant. 

Qr. Master. 

Surgeon. 
I Asst. Surg''n 

Asst. Sim/'n 
Chaplain. 



Wounded severely in thigh at 
P'redericksburg,Va., Dee. 13, 1862. 
Absent, wounded and with leave 
from that date until ex]iirati()n of 
service. 

In command of the Regiment 
from 13th Dec, 1862. Slightly 
wounded in cheek at Chancel lors- 
ville, Va., May3d, 1863. 

Honorably discharged upon 
resignation for disabilitv: Special 
Orders, No. 33, Hd. Qrs' ('. G. D., 
Dee. 22(1, 1862. 

Promoted from Captain of Co. 
(', and mustered in as Major, 
March 31, 1866. 

Appointeil Com. of Mustei's, 3d 
Div. r,th Corps, 11th April, 186,;. 



Appointed Asst. Surgeon, U.S. 
Volunteers, and transferred to 6th 
Army CorjJS, A]n-il, 1863. 



Honorably discharged upon re- g 
signation, 23<1 Nov., 1862. ^<^ 



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XAMES, 



RANK. 



I 



RJEMAKKS. 



John Ault, 



Chaplain. ' Mustered in at Harrisburg, Deo, 
2d, 1862. Joined the Eegt. Dec 
19, 1S&2. Absent, with leave^ 
from Jan. 18, till Feb. 7, 1863. 
.Then absent, sick, without leave 
till expiration of service. 



:\on--^ommissioiic(l Staff. 



XAMES. 



I RANK. 



REMARKS. 



George F. Ziegler, iSer. Major. \ 

I ! 

Wm. M. Allison, Qr. 3/. Svr.^ 

Cha^i. W. Kinsler, Com. Sergt. 

Bottsfd B. Henshev, 7/b*-. iSVeifV? Discharged for disabilitv, April 

1, 1863. 



Lewis Kevser, 



Appointed April 2, 1863. 



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NAMES. 



RANK. 



KKMABKS. 



John Dcebler, 



John Stewart, 



Captain. 



\st Lieut. 



George W. Welsh, 'Id Lieut 



William M'Lenegan, 'Id Lieut. 

John A. 8eiders, 1st Serrft. 

J. Porter Brown, M 

Rob't Bard Fisher, M " 

Thomas Durboraw, I -^th " 

Benj. F. Deal I oth " 



Thomas G. Pilkingtou Corporal. 



David F. Holtiuau, 
Dennis Reill3', 

.Samuel M'llroy, 
Alexander Flack, 
David Greeuawalt, 
Thomas H. ^IcDowell 
Emanuel Forney, 



Frederick Shinetteld,! Musician. 
Thomas Donovan, ' " 

.James G. Gla.ss, 



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Allison Charles, 
Andrews Geo. B. , 
Baker Luther S., 



Waffoner. 
Private. 



Wounded severely in arm at 
Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862, ne- 
cessitating his absence from the 
company during the remainder 
of term of service. 

Appointed Adjutant, August 
16, 1862. 

Promoted to 1st Lieut., August 
16, 1862, vlec John Htewart. In 
command of Comjiany A from 
13th Dec, 1862, till end of service. 
From private vice Geo. W. Welsh. 



Died near Camp Faliii< nith , \'a. , 
Dec. 24, 1862. 

Discharged 9th Feb. 1863, for 
disability. 

Wounded in action at Frede- 
ricksburg, 13th Dec, 1862. Died, 
from wounds, 15th January, 1863. 

Deserted, Oct. 30, 1862. i it- 
turned March 30, 1863, 

Deserted, 2d November, 1862. 



Wounded 13th December, 1862, 
at Fredericksburg, Va. 



Wounded at Chancellorsville. 

Promoted to Corporal. 
I Deserted, Oct. 24th, 1862, IVom 
jcamp, near 8har])sburg, Md. 



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NAMKS. 



RANK. 



REMARKS. 



Bard Cejihus L. 
IJigliani John (J. 
Bittinger Hiraiu J*. 

IJradley Wm. M., 
lirandt Daiuol W. 
Brown John C. 
Cliue Robert, 
Clugston Wni. JNl. 
Cole George F. 
Davidson Wm. G. 



Doughtv .lolin, 
Deatrieii Geo. F. 
Doyle Isaac B. 
Dnncan Geo. W. 
p]arlev Daniel H. 



Private. 



Goetman George, 

(loodyear B. K. 

Hays John M. 
Heck George S. 
Hoeken V)ery Wni, H. 
Houser David A. 



House r Hiram, 
Hutton Jacob H. 
Huber Abraham 
Keefer Wm. B. 
Kennedv William 



Keller .Tacob 

Lange HeuiT*- 
Ijee Thomas 
Ijightcap .)acol> 



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Deserted, September 17, 1862, at 
Frederick, Md. 



Edmiston Henrv C. 




Eyster Wilbur F. 




Fahnestock B. A. 




Fisler David B. 




French Thomas I). 


1 1 


Fuller Christian, 




Gaft-AVilliam, 


" 


Gill William B. 


II 


Gilmore James R. 





Discharged, for disability, by 
order of Gen. Meade, Jan'v 16, 
1863. 



Discharged for disability. 

Promoted to Sergeant, Mav 3, 
1863. 



Wounded in action at Frede- 
ricksburg, 13th Dec. 1862. 

Discharged for disability. 

Discharged Dec. 24th 1862, by 
order of Sec. War. 
! Wounded in action at Frede- 
jricksburg, 13th Dec, 1862. 
j Wounded in action at Frede- 
[ricksburg, 13th Dec, 1862. 



Wounded in action at Frede- 
ricksburg, Va., 13th Dec, 1862, 
died from wounds 2oth Dec, 1862, 
at Washington, D. C. 



I Discharged, 19th Feb., 1863, by 
j order of Surgeon Breer, General 
iHosjiital, Philadel'a: Disabilitv. 
j Deserted, Sept, 17, 1862, from 
'camp near Frederick, Md. 



Wounded, in action, at Fi*ede- 
ricksburg, Va., Dee. 13, 1862. 






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COMPANY A. 






NAMKS. 



KANK. 



ilKMAIlKS. 



McIlroyHam'l H. 
M'Lenegan Wm. 

M'Laughliu David F, 

Martin Jacob, 

Malioii Thaddeus M. 
McGowan Jacob, 



Maxwell tSauiuel B. 
McCrvath T. J. C. 

M'Gaughey David C. 

Nace David B. 
Newman David, 



Oaks Jobu tS. 



Faxton John N. 
Pfoutz John F. 
Piper William, 
Patton James ('. 



Randall Edmund, 
Randall Robert (t. 

Rhotles John H. 
Rhodes Franklin, . 
Roades Henry M. 
Reid Samuel D. C. 
Ritter James (\. 
Rial Henry, 
Reitzel Abraham, 

Renfrew Thomas D. 
Renfrew Harris J. 

Seibei-t David H, 



Sliafler .Jacob \\. 






Private. 






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Promoted toSergt., May 3, 18G;>. 

Promoted to 2d Lieut., Aug. lo, 
1862. 

Killed, in action, at Fredericks- 
burg, Va., Dec. l.'J, 1862. 

Wounded, in action, Frede- 
ricksburg, Va., Dee. 13, 1862. 

Died, from disease, at Stanton 
Hospital, Washi}igton, l.")tli Feb. 
1863. 

Died, 4th March, 1863, from dis- 
ease, at Camp, near Falmouth , Va. 

Wounded at Fredericksburg, 
Va. 

Wounded, in action, at Fi'ede- 
ricksburg, Va., 13th Dec, 1862. 
Died, loth Jan., 1863, at Washing- 
ton, D. C. 

Discharged 2.3d Dec, 1862. Died, 
Dec. 25th, 1862, from wounds re- 
ceived in action, 13th Dec, 1862. 
Promoted to Corporal. 



Discharged from General Hos- 
pital, Philadelphia, by order of 
Gen. Montgomery, 7th January, 
1863.— Disability. 

Taken prisoner at Chancellors- 
ville. 



Killed, in action, at Fredericks- 
burg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. 

Wounded, in action, at Frede- 
jricksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. 
Absent, sick, from Oct. 30, 1862. 
Honorably discharged 31st Jan- 
uary ,1863," by order Surgeon Hunt, 
Convalescent Camp, Va., for dis- 
ability. 

Wounded, in action, at Frede- 
ricksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. Died 
at Hospital, Washington, D. C, 
8th July, 1863. 

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COMPANY A. 






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NAMES. 


RANK. 


REMARKS. 


Shryock Samuel S. 


Private. 


Discharged, Oct. 9, 1862, on ac- 
count of nervous affection of the 
eyes. 


Sharj) Robert, 


11 




Sixeas Jacob, 


n 


Discharged for disability. 


Stratton Samuel, 


(« 




Stewart Reges, 


it 




Taylor John, 


It 




Wampler Geo. E. 


il 




Watson Geo. W. 


tl 


Provost Guard at C'orps Pld.Qrs. , 
from 22d Sept., 1862. 


AVashabaugh D. W. 


11 


Killed, in action, at Fredericks- 
burg, Va., Dec. 1:5, 1862. 


Wilt Adam W. 


u 




Welsh Philip R, 


11 








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OMPANY 



P- 



NAMES. 



BANK. 



REMARKS. 



James C. Austin, 
William H. Davison, 



Henry M. Hoke, 



.James Pott, 



•lames Pott, 
Harvey Wisliert, 

I. Y. Atberton, 



John Brown Lesher, 



Joseph Myers, 



John L. P. Detrich, 



Silas D. Anderson, 



William H. Weyant, 



< Jacob H. Swisher, 



^. 



Captain. 



\st Lieut. 



Id Lieut. 



\st Sergt. 
Id Sergt. 

M Sergt. 



4th Sergt. 
oth Sergt. 

Corporal. 



Promoted to Major. 

Promoted to be Captain, Au- 
jgust 20, 1862, vice Austin, promo- 
jted. Feb. 1863, appointed In- 
ispector General of Brigade, and 
detached until expiration of ser- 
vice on the Staff of Gen. Tyler. 

Detailed as Division Ordnance 
Officer, Oct. 13, 1862. 

From 1st Sergeant, August 20, 
1862, vice Wm. H. Davison. Se- 
verely wounded in the face at 
Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. 

Promoted to 2d Lieutenant. 

Promoted to Ist Serg't, Aug. 
20, 1862. 

Promoted to 2d Serg't, August 
20, 1862. Absent, sick, without 
leave, and drojiped from the rolls, 
March 9, 1863. 

Promoted to 3d Serg't, Aug. 20, 
1862. Captured at Chancellors- 
ville, May 3, 1863. 

Promoted to 4th Serg't, August 

20, 1862. Reduced to ranks by 

order of Col. Elder, Oct. 21, 1S()2. 

Deserted Dec. 10, 1862, just before 

the battle. 

Promoted to 5th Serg't, August 
20, 1862. Reduced to ranks, Nov. 
4, 1862. 

Promoted t« .5th Serg't, Nov. 
4. 1862. Discharged, for disabili- 
ty, Feb'y 4, 1863. 

Promoted to 4th Serg't, Oct. 21, 

1862. Reduced to ranks at Chan- 
cellorsville. 

Discharged, from Chestnut Hill 
Hospital, Philadelphia, ¥ch. 9, 

1863, on account of general disa- 
ability and left thumb amputated 
from wound received in battle at 
Fredericksburg, Dec. 13th, 1862. 






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COMPANY n. 






NAMES. 



KANK. 



KEMAKKS. 



William Ortli, 



(Jourtiiey G. Glenn, 
Peter Wesner, 
James R. Cummins, 

John H. Hush, 

.Tared Irvine, 

D. A. Lamberson, 

Abbott T. J. 
Alabaugh S. G. 
Bowman Jonathan, 

Baker Andrew 
Bowman Abraham, 
Brunner George, 

Barnheisel J{. W. 

Pioerner Adam, 
Barnett Josej^h C 
Cleary Thos. J. 
Crunkleton Robert, 
(^loni'ad Moses, 
Cleary James, 
Chambers Thos. J. 
Clevenger Adam, 
Dennisar Daniel, 

Deaver Jesse A. 
Edwards John, 
Foreman John M. 
Finney William, 

Felteberger John, 
Greenawalt Jacob, 
Glenn Geo. W. 



Glenn Andrew, 
(liossert Samuel C 
Glass Daniel, 



( tordon David 
(hove Wm. A. 
(Trove Emanuel 
Hager C. C. 




Corporal. I Deserted, Oct. 21, 1862. Return - 
jed, March 28th, 1863, under Presi- 
dent's Pi'oclamation. 



II 



Mynician. 

II 

Wagoner. 

Private. 

II 



II 
II 



II 
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11 



II 
II 



Promoted to 4th .Serg't at Chau- 
eellorsville. 

Never mustered in. 



Killed, in action, at Chancel- 
lorsville, May ;5, 186;!. 



Wounded in left hand, at Chan- 
cellorsville. May 3, 1863. 

Promoted to Corporal, Oct. 21, 
1862. 



Promoted to Cor^joral at battle 
of Cluincellorsville, May 3, 1863. 

Deserted, .Sept. 20, 1862. 

Wounded, in action, at Frede- 
ricksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. 
Deserted, Oct. 8, 1862. 

Discluirged from Hospital, at 
Newark, N. J., Oct. 17, 1862, on 
account of disability. 

Wounded, slightly, at Chancel- 
lorsville. 

Died, April lit, ]863, near Fal- 
mouth, Va. 

Discharged from Regimental 
Hospital, near Falmouth, Va., 
July 14, ls()3, on account of disa- 
bility. 

Promoted to Corporal. 



Captured, in action, at ( 'hancel- 
llorsville, May 3, 1863. 



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NAMES. 


RANK. 


KKMARKS. 


Hoopengardner Ab'iu 


Private. 




Hoke James S. 


a 




Jacobs Adam, 


i4 




KisseckerMatthiasW. 


u 


Wounded, slightly in hand, at 
Chancellorsville, May 3, lS(j:?. 


Kendall Jolui F. 


1 i 


Promoted to Corporal, Dee. 17, 
1862, on aecount of good beha- 
vior in action. 


Keith Wilson K. 


11 




Kelso D. W. 


11 


Promoted to Corporal, March 1, 
1868, for meritorious conduct be- 
fore the enemy. 


Lininger Keiiheu, 


" 




Long- William, 


I ( 




Long Phili]), 


a 


Discharged, on account of disa- 
bility, March 29, ims, by order of 
Major General Meade. 


Lindsay James M. 


11 


Discharged, for disability, Mar. 
21, 1868. 


Litten Hiolimond, 


u 




Logan Wm. (1. 


11 


Died, at Harewood Hos]>ital, 
November 24, 1862. 


Moore Wm. H. 


i L 




iSIissavy John, 


a 




Mellott Noriis, 


" 


Deserted, Sept. 2-3, 1862. 


Mellott ( Jeo. ^^^ 


i I 


Deserted, Sept. 2r), 1862. 


Martin Ija/arus, 


" 




Oliver John, 


a 


Wounded, in action, severely, 
at t'hancellorsville, May 3, 1868. 


Pedieord John ^L 


i i 




Pittman Jienj. F. 


u 




Parlett John, 


u 




Uuthrauff Heniy, 


ki 


Wounded, in action, at Frede- 
ricksburg, Dec. l:'., 18(52. 


Pedieord ('. W. 


i i 




ilichardson And'w C 


it 


Died, in Douglas Hospital, Jan. 
29, 1863, from wounds received in 
battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 18, 
1862. 


Showalter Saniiiel, 


u 




Sj>eelmaii F^awson W. 


i i 


Promoted to ("orpoial, August 

20, 1862. Ileduced to ranks, by 
order of (\)lonel Elder, October 

21, 1862. 


Shrader (ieorge. 


4 i 


Promoted to ( !or )orai, ISIareli ] , 
1868, for good eom u<'t. 


Sleighter Amos, 


ii 




SalkeldS. W. 


it 




.Sterrett Matthias N. 


i( 




Shatzer Joseph, 


1 1 




Stine John, 


( t 




Smith Wm. 1). 


li 


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Tritle^Luther D. 


1 i 




Tritle Jaeol. -M. 


1 1 





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NAMES. 



Truax William, 



Taylor John, 



Ulrick John. 

linger W. P. 
Wilson James, 
Witherspoon 1). ('. 
Wilders James, 
Unger Samuel, 
Walker William. 
Wright Paul F. 
Woy James H. 



Woodcock W. W. 
Young Carlton, 



BANK. 



REMARKS. 



Private. 



a 



Died, in Regimental Hospital, 
near Falmouth, Va., November 

27, 1862. 

Promoted to Corporal, Oct'r 21, 
1862. Missing, in action, at Fred- 
ericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862, since 
which nothing has been heard of 
him. Known to have been 
wounded in the leg and disabled. 

Deserted, Dec. 10, 1862, just be- 
fore the fight. 



Wounded, in action, at Frede- 
ricksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. 
Wounded, in action, at Chancel- 
lorsville. May 3, 1863. 

Promoted to Corporal, Nov'r 4, 
1862. Promoted to 5th Sergeant, 
March 1st, for good conduct. 



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OMPANY 



f- 



NAMES. 



RANK. 



KEMAKKS. 



Robert H. Browiison, 



James P. M'Cullough, 



Samuel Hornbaker, 



Captain. 






Jacob S. Trout, 
James P. M'Cullough 

David Carson, 
Oliver H. Anderson, 

William W. Brinkley 

TTaomas D. Metcalf, 

Jacob B. Myers, 



John K. Shatzer, 
David L. Coyle, 



David F. McDonald, 

Peter McC. Cook, 
John Findlay Smith, 
David R. Wolff, 
Wm. H. M'Clelland. 

Wm. P. M'Cune, 
Henry Oyler, 
Alleman Samuel C. 
Armstrong John, 
Bennett Jojjn, 



\st Lieut. 



2d Lieut. 
iHt Scrrft. 

•2d Serg't. 
'M Scrrft. 

Uh Serg^t. 

5th HergH. 

Corporal. 






Musician. 

Wagoner. 

Private. 



Appointed Major, by Gov. Cur- 
tin, 16tli March", 1863. Mustered 
in as sucn, 31st March, 1863. 

E'rom First Lieutenant, Marcb 
19, 1863, vice R. S. Brownson. 

Dismissed the service of the U. 
S., 16th Jan'y, 1863.— General Or- 
ders, No. 4, Third Division, Fifth 
Corjjs; and General Orders, No. 
13, Head Quarters Armj' of the 
Potomac, Feb'y 18, 1863. 



Promoted, February !), 1863. to 
First Lieutenant, vict Hornba- 
ker. 

Died, September 13, 1862. 

Promoted to 2d Sergeant, Feb. 
9, 1863. 

Killed, at battle of Fredericks- 
burg, Dec. 13, 1862. 

Wounded, at Chancellorsville, 
May 3, 1863. 

Promoted to 2d Sergeant, Sept. 
14, 1862. To 1st Sergeant, Feb'v 
9, 1863. 

Promoted to 4th Sergeant, Dec'r 
14, 1862. Wounded, slightly, at 
Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863. 

Taken prisoner at Chancellors- 
ville, May 3, 1863. 



Wounded, at Fredericksburg, 
Va., Dec. 13, 1862. 



Deserted Oct. 30, 1862. Returned 
under President's l*roclamation, % 



March, 1863. 



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NAMES. 1 


^ANK. 


KEMARKS. 


Boyd R. Hays, 


Private. 




Bowers George K. M. 


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Brunt TJieodore, 


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Deserted Oct. 30, 18G2. Return- 
ed under President's Proclama- 
tion, March, 1863. 


Bnuiley .J. Johnston, 


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Brubaker Patterson, 


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r>iuce Bryson, 


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Wounded, at Chancellorsville, 
May 3, 1863. 


Byers Edward, 


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Byers John M. 


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Cantner Jacob, 


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Deserted Oct. 30, 1862. Return- 
ed under President's Proclama- 
tion, March, 1863. 


("anipbell M'Farland, 


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(>)le George, 


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Wounded, at Chancellorsville,. 
May 3, 1863. 


Creigh Thos. Alfred, 


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Criliy Tlieodore, 


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Cushwa J. Brewer 


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Wounded, at Fredericksburg, 
Dec. 13, 1862. 


Dickey Seth, 


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Divelbiss David U. 


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Divelbiss Josej^h K. 


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Doyle Cornelius, 


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Dronenbiirg John T. 


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Duffield James B. 


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Eckert John, 


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Eckman John W. 


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Findlay Robert 8. 


11 




Findlay IMward J. 


11 


Deserted at Harrisburg, August 
9, 1862. 


Fritz Levi, 


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W^ounded, at Fredericksburg, 
Va., Dec. 13, 1802. 


Fulton Joseph R. 


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Garns Samuel, 


11 


Deseilbd Oct. 30, 1862. Return^ 
ed under President's Proclama- 
tion, March, 1863. 


(jiehrett Benjamin F. 


11 


Discharged, for disability, 19th 
March, 1863, by order INIajor ( Gen- 
eral Meade. 


Hause Milton, 


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Henninger John, 


11 




Hendricks George, 


11 




Hersh David M. 


11 




Hornbaker Daniel N. 


11 




Hornbaker Jno. \Vm. 


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Hospelhorn Wm. H. 


11 




Metcalfe Thomas C. 


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Miller Christopher, 


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Mowen Dallas E. 


11 


Killed, in battle, Fredericks- 
burg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. 


Mowry Jacob B. 


11 


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Myers Andrew A. 


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BANK. 



REMARKS. 



Myers Geo. W. C. 
M'Cune Wm. Brewer 
M'Cune John E. 
M'Donald George, 
M'Culloh J. Archib'd 
M'Connell James, 

M'Clelland Robert, 
M'Clelland Adam, 

M'Cutclieon Robert, 
'M'Dowell William, 

M'Kinstry Wm. E. 

North Samuel W. 
Ortli J, Q,. Adams, 
Palmer G. W. 
Parker J. Thompson, 
Parker James O. 



Patterson Samuel J. 
Pensinger Thomas, 
Rankin J. Watson, 
Reed Charles F. 
Ripple Joseph, 

Ross Adam, 
Scully David B. 



Secrist Jacob B. 
Shorts Henry, 
Socks John, 
St. Clair Thomas, 
Starliper Wm. M. 

Stine Henry J. 
Thomas Christopher 
Tibby James, 
Trout Nicholas C. 

Walt William W. 

Weiler John B. 
Werdebaugh Wm. 
Wolff David E. 
Work J. Huston, 

Zimmerman John L, 



Private. 



Died, in camp, March 31, 1863. 
Wounded, at Chancellorsville, 
May 3, 1863. 

Died, at Camp, near Falmouth, 
Va., Dec. 5, 1862, of fever. 

Wounded, at Chancellorsville, 
Va., May 3, 1863. 

Wounded, at Chancelloi-sville, 
Va., May 3, 1863. 



Ai^pointed Corporal, Oct'r 25, 
1862. Wounded, at Chancellors- 
ville, May 3, 1863. 



Wounded, at Chancellorsville, 
Va., May 3, 1863. 

Discharged, for disability, 10th 
March, 1863, by order of Major 
General Meade. 



Wounded, at Chancellorsville, 
Va., May 3,1863. 
Appointed Corporal, Dec. 13, '62. 



Killed, at Chancellorsville, Va., 
May 3, 1863. 

Died, atCami?, near Falmouth, 
Va., February 24, 1863. 



Wounded, at Fredericksburg, 
Va., December 13, 1862. 

Wounded, at Chancellorsville, 
Va., May 3, 1863. 






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NAMES. 



Johu H. Reed, 



Josiah C. Hulliiiger. 



Jeremiah Cook, 
George F. Piatt, 

Clay M'Cauley, 

George F. Piatt, 

John M' Curdy, 
Clay M'Cauley, 

John M. P. Snider, 

Alex'rL, C.Dingwall 

William A. Mountz, 

Lewis Mouath, 

Charles W. Kiusler, 
Bottsford B. Henshey 
WiUiam B. Cook, 
Henry B. Kindig, 



BANK. 

Captain. 



Captain. 



\st Lieut. 



\st Lieut. 



2d Lieut. 



1st Serg't. 

2dSergH. 
Sd&'erg't. 

Ath Serg^t. 

5th Scrg't. 

Corporal. 



REMARKS. 



Honorably discharged upon re- 
signation, January, 1863. 

From 2d Lieut., Feb'y 1863, vice 
John H. Reed, resigned. 

Discharged the Service, Jan. 16, 
1863. [Dismissal revoked.] 

Vice Jere. Cook, Feb. 24, 1863. 
Acting Adjutant at battle of 
Chancellorsville. 

Vice Josiah C. Hullinger, pro- 
moted to Captain. Captured at 
Chancellors ville. 

Promoted to 1st Lieut., vice 
Jere. Cook, Feb'y 24, 1863. 

Promoted to 2d Lieut., vice 3. 
C. Hullinger, Feb'y 24, 1863. 

Discharged, by order of Maj. 
Gen. Meade, Feb'y 12, 1863. 



Promoted to Sergeant, Febru- 
ary 14, 1863. Reduced to ranks at 
Chan cellors ville. 

Reduced to ranks, Februarv 17, 
1863. Wounded at Chancellors- 
ville, Va., May 3, 1863. 

Appointed Commissary Ser- 
geant, Aug. 15, 1862. 

Appointed Hospital Steward, 
Aug. 15, 1862. 

Discharged, Dec. 22, 1862, by 
order of Brig. Gen. Butterfield. 

Promoted to 1st Sergeant, Feb, 
25, 1863. 



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NAMES. 



Joseph W. Seiberfc, 

William Fentiman, 
Sam'l M. Shoemaker, 
Samuel Etter, 
Bowman Henry, 
Barnes Geo. W. 
Bittinger Joseph S. 

Bushy Jacob, 
Bear Daniel, 
Barnett William A. 
Buchanan James T. 
Brittian Melville C. 

Carr Harry L. 
Cook Henry, 

Cook John H., 

Clippinger John R. 
Cover Henry L. 
Evans William C. 
Ely Francis R. 
Falter George B. 
Ferronburg Edward, 
Funk John L. 
Gibbs John, 

Gordon David B. 
Houser Nicholas B. 
Harmon George E. 
Humelsine Menaris, 

Holby Andrew, 



Hallman Jacob H. 
Heart John B. 

Johnston George W. 
Keyser Lewis, 
Kindig David E, 
Keefer George G. 
Ledy Samuel C. 



Lesher John H. 

Lininger Peter, 
o Lininger George W. 



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REMARKS. 




Corporal. 



3fusician. 
Wagoner. 

Pi'ivate. 

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Discharged, Jan. 14, 1863, by 
order of Maj. Gen. Meade. 
Reduced to ranks, Feb. 17, 1863. 



Discharged, Dec. 22, 1862, by 
order of Gen. Butterfield. 



Detached, as Hospital Clerk, 
from Oct. 1862. 

Died, Dec. 14, 1862, from 
wounds received at battle of 
Fredericksburg, Va. 

Discharged, Feb. 19, 1863. Ab- 
sent, sick, from Oct. 1862, 

Discharged, Jan'y 14, 1863. 



Died, Jan'y 9, 1863, at camp 
near Falmouth, Va. 



Promoted to Corporal, Dec. 23, 

1862. Promoted to Sergeant, Feb. 
25, 1863. 

Promoted to Corporal, Feb'y 14, 

1863. Wounded, at Chancellors- 
ville. 

Wounded at Chancellors vile, 
May 3, 1863. 

Appointed Hospital Steward. 

Discharged, March 9, 1863. 
Wounded at Fredericksburg, Va., 
Dec. 13, 1862. 

Discharged, Dec. 22, 1862, by 
order of Gen. Butterfield. 






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NAMES. 



RANK. 



REMARKS. 



Laman Henry, 

Lewis Reuben M. 
Larch Charles, 
Lindsay John B. 

Moore Upton H. 
Mellinger John, 
M'Kisson James, 

Miller George, 
M'Dowell James B. 
M' Curdy Alexander, 

M'Grath Allen C. 

M'Hale Austin, 
M'Kane Andrew, 
Mohler Samuel, 
Mohler Frederick R. 
M'Nair Amos K. 
Markward William, 

Meelman Adam, 
M'Laughlin James, 
M'Elwaine Robert, 
Nicklas Adam, 

O'Malley Samuel, 
Palsgrove David L. 
Palsgrove Jackson, 
Pike Ferdinand W. 

Pensinger George, 
Pensinger Jacob, 
Peisel David L. 

Powders David L. 
Parker John AV. 
Reisher Samuel, 

Reilly Francis, 
Shinafield John W. 
Shearer Elias, 
Shultz Andrew J. 

Shetter Simon C. 
Simmers David, 
Stickle Samuel C. 
Stahl William, 
Snyder John A. J. 
f^^hearer Walker, 



Private. 






Wounded at Fredericksburg, 
Va., Dec. 13, 1862. 
Discharged, March 10, 1863. 

Wounded at Fredericksburg, 
Va.,Dec. 13, 1862. 



Died, Feb. 24, 1863, Camp near 
Falmouth, Va. 



Promoted to Corporal, Feb. 17, 
1863. 

Promoted to Corporal, Aug. 16, 
1862. Discharged, Feb. 12, 1863. 



Promoted to Corporal, Februa- 
ry 14, 1862. 



Wounded, at Chancellorsville, 
Va., May 3, 1863. 



Promoted to Corporal, Aug. 16, 
1862. Deserted, Nov'r 5, 1862. 



Promoted to Corporal, Februa- 
ary 14, 1863. 



Discharged, Feb'y 6, 1863, for 
disability. 



Promoted to Corporal, Feb. 17, 
1863. 




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RANK. 



REMARKS. 



Spencer David, 
Shinefleld Geo. S. 

Trogler William, 
Washabaugh Daniel, 
Weaver Henry A. 
Yeager Leonard, 
Yenkle Charles, 



Private. 



Died, Nov. 2, 1862, at Sharps- 
burg, Md. 

Discharged, Feb. 7, 1S63. 






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NAMES. 



RANK. 



REMARKS. 



W. W. Walker, 
Geo. W. Walker, 
Thos. J. Nill, 

Henry H. Breneman, 

Frederick Berkel, 
Henry H. Breneman, 

John A. White, 
Benjamin S. Gaff, 
Geo. M. D.Brotherton, 

Samuel J. Lidy, 
James B. French, 
John C. Tracy, 

Geo. L. Freet, 
Jacob F. Newman, 
Luther B. Walter, 
John C. Anderson, 
AugustusC. Man ahan , 

John Bell, 
Geo. G. Pilkington, 
Matthias Minehart, 
Anderson W. W. 
Bowman Calvin, 
Bowman Geo. W. 
Bowman John F. 
Barnett Henry F. 

Bender John M. 

Beard Napoleon, 
Benchoof Benj. F. 






Captain. 
\8t Lieut. 
2d Lieut. 

2d Lieut. 



\st Serg't. 
2d Serg't. 

5d SergH. 
Mh Serg't. 
5th SergH. 



Corporal. 



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Drummer. 

Wagoner. 

Private. 

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Promoted to Quarter Master of 
Regiment. 

Promoted to 2d Lieut., Nov. 
18, 1862, from 2d Serg't. 



Promoted to 2nd Lieut.^, Nov. 
18, 1862. 



Killed in action at Fredericks- 
burg, Dec. 13, 1862. 



Discharged for disability, 23d 
Dec, 1862. 



Died, Dec. 22, 1862, in camp 
near Falmouth, Va. 



Missing after the action at 
Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. 

Promoted to Corjioral, Dec. 17, 
1862. Discharged for disability, 
March 2, 1863. 

Discharged for disability, April. 
6, 1863. 

Died, at Wind Mill Hospital, 
of typhoid fever, Jan'y 23, 1863 



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NAMES. 



BANK. 



REMARKS. 






Bear D. Jacob, 
Boyles Robert J. 
Carnan Archibald, 
Cordel John, 



Cunninghaiu Thos. 
Criner George F. K. 

DiftenderferEmanuel, 
Ditch William H. 
Detro Lewis, 
Davis Cornelius, 
Davis Robert, 
Delph Michael, 
Flory John F. 

Flohr Hamuel, 

Flohr Thomas, 
Flory Ellas S. 
Gamp Frederick, 
Grove John W. 
Honodle Adam, 
Hoover Daniel C. 



Hoover J. Wilson, 
Hellane Daniel, 
HoUingsworth F. S. 
Hall Finly, 
Hoof Milton, 
Izer David, 
Izer John, 
Johnston William, 

Kriner Michael, 
Kriner Henry, 
Kipe J. W. 
Kaddle Adam, 
Lokas William, 
Lippy Albert, 
M'Vicker J. M. 

Mentzer John, 
Myers Samuel R. 



Miller John L. 
M'Ferren James, 
Maun Samuel, 

Miller David, 






Frivate. 

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Discharged at Washington 
Hospital, by order of Gen. IMar- 
tindale, Feb. 19, 1863. 

Absent in Hospital, from Oct. 
30, 1862. 



Wounded at Fredericksburg, 
Va., Dec. 13, 1862. 

Discharged for disability, 16th 
Feb., 1863. 



i Missing since the action of 
Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 

1862. 



Promoted to Corporal, Dec. 17, 
1862. 



Deserted, 14th Sept., 1862, from 
Georgetown, D. C. 

Discharged, March 29, 1863, for 
disability, by order of Gen. 
Meade. 



Deserted from Frederick, Md., 
Sept. 17, 1862. 












COMPANY E. 




NAMES. 



RANK. 



REMARKS. 



Nunnemaker Beuj. 
Newman George F. 
Noviu W. G. 

Ogle John E. 
Price Geo. K, 
Peters John H. 



Pool Joseph, 
Pentz John, 

Rowzer Simon P. 

Renfrew W. A. M. 
Rock Abraham, 
Rider Frank S. 
Ripple Angustus J. 

Singer Daniel W. 

Seace William, 
Stull Joseph S. 

Shooj) Jeremiah, 
Sellers Amos J. 
Sherley Wm. H. 
Smith Charles J. 
Strausner Paul 
Saunders William, 
Sibbett Wilson R. 
Sanders John, 
Taylor Wm. H. 
Taylor George F. 
Waddle Henry J. 
Wolff Jacob ■ 
Williard M. A. 

Wolff Daniel 
Wetzel Samuel 






Private 



Promoted to 5th Sergeant, Dec, 
17, 1862. Died in hospital, April 
3, 1863. 

Discharged for disability, Mar. 
20, 1863, by order of Gen. Meade. 

Killed in action, at Fredericks- 
burg, Va., Dec, 13, 1862. 



Promoted to 2d Sergeant, Nov. 
1, 1862. 

Absent, sick. Reported as a de- 
serter, Nov. 3, 1862. 

Deserted, Sept'r 18, 1862, from 
Frederick, Md. 



Promoted to Corporal, April 26, 
1863. 



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NAMES. 



BANK. 



REMARKS. 



John P. Wharton, 

Rob't P. M'Williams, 

James C. Bonsall, 

Banks W. Sharon, 
John W. Phillips, 
William B. Roush, 
Martin S. Littlefield, 
Frank Mayne, 



Josiah M. Bowers, 

George Miller, 
Adam J. Greer, 



Sol. B. Kauffman, 
Lemuel Warner, 



Isaac R. Walton, 
Wm. W. Mitchell, 
Franklin P. Kirk, 

Cloyd Kreider, 
S. A. G. Mathers, 
Cha's H. Williamson, 

Anderson George, 
Adams John, 
Anderson Jacol), 
Bonsall Samuel, 

Burchfield Theodore, 



Bolton Enos, 
Blackford John E. 
g Beaver Martin, 



Captain. 

\st Lieut. 

2d Lieut. 

\st SergH. 
M SergH. 
3d SergH. 
Uh SergH. 
5th SergH. 



Corporal. 

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Musician. 

II 

Wagoner. 

Private. 

II 



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II 
II 
II 



Injured at Fredericksburg, Va. 



Deserted, Aug. 24, 1862. After- 
wards turned out to be a woman, 
whose real name was Frances 
Day. 

Promoted, August, 1862, to 5th 
Sergeant. 

Discharged, Dec'r 24, 1862, at 
Walnut Street Hospital, Harris- 
burg, Pa. 

Color-Bearer. 

Wounded slightly, in right leg, 
at battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 
13, 1862. 



Reduced to ranks at Fredericks- 
burg, Dec, 13, 1862. 

Deserted, Sept. 18, 1862. 
Discharged, Feb. 7, 1863, by or- 
der of Gen. Sykes. 
Deserted, Sept'r 18, 1862. 



Wounded in l»attle of Frede- 
ricksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. 

Promoted, Aug. 26. 1862, to 
Corporal. Wounded at Chancel- 
lorsville, May 3, 1863. 





COMPAMY F. 






NAMES. 



BANK. 



REMARKS. 



Bruner Jeremiah, 
Civils Lorenzo D. 
Cline John G. 
Calhoun Samuel, 



Clay Samuel, 



Private. 

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Code Richard M. J. 
Dressier Jeremiah, 
Deam William, 


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Ebbert John C. 
Fink David, 
Ellis Samuel, 
Fasic Britton Allen, 
Fink Porter, 


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Fitzi^atrick William, 


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Guss Jefferson J. A. 


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Givler William, 
Garver Michael, 
Hood Nathaniel, 
Hicus William, 
Hock Samuel, 


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Hinkle N. S. 


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Laird Robert A. 


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Logan William C. 
Lauglilin Geo. H. 
Louder James R. 
Longaere J. E. 
Logue Oren, 
Mathers Jesse, 
Miller Theodore, 


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Matthes Samuel W. 


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Deserted, Jan'y 21, 1863. 

Wounded slightly in the hand, 
at battle of Fredericksburg, Dec. 
13, 1862. Discharged March 29, 
1863, for disability, by order of 
Gen. Meade. 

Discharged, March 20, 1S63, 
for disability, by order of Gen. 
Meade. 

Deserted, Jan'y 24, 1863. 

Discharged, Dec. 13, 1862, by 
order of Gen. Martindale. 

Wounded in left arm, in battle 
of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. 

Missing at Chancellorsville. 



Taken prisoner near Warren- 
ton Junction, Nov. 18, 1862. Re- 
turned to his regiment, Feb. 26, 
1863. 

Died at the Hospital, Washing- 
ton, Aug. 24, 1862. 

Discharged, Feb. 7, 1863, by or- 
der of Gen. Sykes. 

Missing at Chancellorsville. 



Discharged, March 2, 1863, or- 
der of Gen. Meade. 

Wounded at battle of Frede- 
ricksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. 

Wounded at battle of Frede- 
ricksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. 

AVounded at battle of Frede- 
ricksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. 



Wounded at Chancellorsville. 

Deserted, Sept. 18, 1862. 

Killed Dec. 13, 1862, at battle of 
Fredericksburg. 

Discharged, Feb. 12, 1863, by 
order of Gen. Sykes. 



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REMARKS. 



M' Knight William B. 

Mitchell Benjamin E. 
Maxwell W. B. 
Myers William, 
Peck John, 
Quay David, 
How Samuel, 
Ramp Daniel, 
tSpout John, 
Sarvis Columbus, 
Stoner George W. 

Swonger David E. 
Stine Jacob, 

Shultz Jesse L. 
Smith William J. 



Steyner Jonathan, 
Seys Isaac, 
Tutton John L. 
Unholtz H. C. 



Weidman Adam H. 
Weildman Elmer, 
Weildman James, 



Winters Harmon, 
Whitmer Samuel H. 
Warner Jesse W. 
Woods William W. 
Weisner Samuel E. 
Weisner Jerome, 
Webb Josiah, 
Williams J. A. 
Winegardner Sam'l, 

Yocum John, 
Yocum Henry, 



Private. 






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Discharged, Oct. 9, 1862, for 
disability, by order of Maj. Gen. 
Porter. 



Discharged, Feb'y 17, 1863. 



Died, Jan. 24, 1863, in Hospital, 
Camp near Falmouth, Va. 

Died, Jan. 19, 1863, in General 
Hospital, near Acquia Landing. 

Wounded at Chancellorsville. 

Discharged, Dec. 22, 1862, for 
disability, by order of Brig. Gen. 
Butterfleld. 



Wounded at Chancellorsville. 

Promoted to Corporal, for good 
conduct, at the battle of Frede- 
ricksburg, Dee. 13, 1862. 



Deserted, September 20, 1862. 
Brought back and kept at Harp- 
er's Ferry until unable to do duty. 
Discharged, Dec. 31, 1862. 

Deserted, January 21, 1863. 

Wounded at Chancellorsville. 



Wounded at Chancellorsville. 
Deserted, January 21, 1863. 

Died, January 18, 1863, at Hos- 
pital, Acquia Creek. 



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NAMES. 



RANK. 



REMARKS. 



George L. Miles, 
Stephen O. M' Curdy, 
Harry C. Fortescue, 

Benjamin F. Zook, 

Benjamin F. Zook, 
John H. Harmony, 

AnthonyK.M'Curdy, 

John C. Flickinger, 

John Liggett, 

John Kasy Jr. 

S.O. Brown M' Curdy, 

Tliomas Lindsay, 

Edward Monath, 

Peter Dorty, 
Amos A. Skinner, 
Richard Waters, 

William T. Smith, 

George A. Miller, 



John C. Miller, 


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James Muma, 


Wagoner 


Beidel Philip D. 


Private. 


Bert John, 




Burkholder Jacob, 




Bair David W. 




Barclay Franklin N. 




Brinsly John, 




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Captain. 
\st Lieut. 
2d Lieut. 

2d Lieut. 

1st Sergt. 
2d Sergt. 

Zd Sergt. 

Aith Sergt. 

5th Sergt. 

Corporal. 



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Musician. 



Killed, inaction, at Fredericks- 
burg, Va., 13th Dec. 1862. 

Vice Fortescue, killed. Pro- 
moted from 1st Serg't Feb. 9, 1863. 



Promoted to 1st Sergeant, Feb. 
9, 1863. 

Promoted to 2d Serg't, Feb. 9, 
1863. 

Promoted to 3d Serg't, Feb. 9, 
1863. 

P' • ...trged, Dec. 2, 1862, by or- 
der of Gen. Butterfield. 

Deserted, Oct. 30, 1862. Re- 
duced to ranks Dec. 4, 1862. Re- 
turned April 1, 1863, Pres'tsProc. 

Wounded, at Chancellorsville, 
May 3, 1863. 

Reduced to ranks, by order of 
Col. Elder, Dec. 4, 1862. 

Promoted to 4th Serg't, Feb'y 
9, 1863. 

Reduced to ranks May 3, 1863. 

Wounded, severely, at Chan- 
cellorsville, May 3, 1863. 

Reduced to ranks, Oct. 21. 1862, 
by order of Col. James G. Elder. 

Discharged, Oct. 30, 1862, by 
order of Maj. Gen. Porter. 



Promoted to Corp'l Dec. 5, 1862. 



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KANK. 



REMARKS. 



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Brinsly Noah A. 
Coover George W. 
Cook William J. 
Ci'ouse Henry C. 

Duck Daniel, 
Ditzler Charles N. 

Dunkle Michael, 
Dunkle Solomon, 

Dunkinson Wm. E. 
Davis Edward J. 
Eyser Benjamin, 
Edmondson H. M. 
Embich Daniel W. 

Eyster Geo. S. 
Fleagle Annanias, 
Forney John M. 

Fields Russell, 



French Joseph, 
(ielwicks Daniel B. 
Gaff Samuel, 
Heeter John F. 
Hepfer Peter S. 
Harmon Lawrence, 



Hockersmith M. S. 
Hei)fer Daniel J. 
Harclerode Wm. H. 

Jones John D. 
Jones David W. 
Johnston Enos, 

Kennedy Job, 
Knite William J. 

Lightner Franklin, 
Lynch Reuben, 
Loudenslager Philip, 
M'Intyre Robert W. 

M'Curdy John A. 
M'Cai'tney James, 

Miller Franklin A. 
Melhorn Simon, 






Private. 



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Discharged, April 2, 1863, by or- 
der of Gen Meade. 

Promoted to Corp'l, Feb. 9, 1863. 

Wounded at Fredericksburg, 
Dec. 13, 1862. 

Discharged, Dec. 31, 1862, at 
Frederick, Md. 



Promoted to Corporal, October 
29, 1862. 



Promoted to 5th Sergeant, Dec. 
5, 1862. 

Wounded, severely, at Frede- 
ricksburg,Dec. 13, 1862. Discharg- 
ed, for disability, March 9, 1863. 



Killed, in action, at Frede- 
ricksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. True 
name, L. Barger. 



Deserted, October 30, 1862. Re- 
turned, Pres'ts Proc. April 1, 1863. 



Died, of disease, at Reg'l Hos- 
pital, Feb'y 14, 1863. 

Wounded, severely, at Frede- 
ricksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. 



Wounded, slightly, at Frede- 
ricksburg, Dec'r 13, 'l862. 

Wounded, at Chancellorsville, 
May 3, 1863. 





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REMARKS. 



M'Kee Thomas, 
Moore John T. 
Maun William P. 
Nolan George W. 
O'Neal James, 
Oyer Daniel H. 
Pence Christian, 
Rosenberger Samuel, 
Rummel James W. 
Reitzel Henry 8. 
Reed George \\. 

Rinehart Lewis, 

Stewart Robert, 

Senseny Ferdinand, 
Senseny Hiram C. 
Speer Charles, 
Shoemaker Geo. W. 

Sharp Adam, 
Shatter John S. 



Shearer Jesse, 
Shearer Jonathan, 
Shearer Amos, 
Smith William F. 
Walters William H. 
Worthingtou Isaac, 
Waddle Samuel C. 
Witherow Franklin C 
Wilson Harrison, 
Zarman Joseph N. 



Private. 



Discharged, April 12, 1863, by 
order of Gen. Meade. 

Promoted to Corporal, De'r 5, 
1862. 

Discharged, Dec'r 24, 1862, by 
order of Brig. Gen, Montgomery. 



Died, in Hospital, near Frede- 
ricksburg, Va., Dec. 14, 1862. 

Wounded, severely, at Frede- 
ricksburg,Dec. 13, 1862. Discharg- 
ed, March 10, 1863. 










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KANK. 



REMARKS. 



James G. Elder, 



John H. Walker, 



Captain. 
Ca2itain. 



William H. Mackey, 



Josiah W. Fletcher, 



William H. Mackey, 
Jacob Snider, 

Alfred J. Kent, 

Stephen W. Pomeroy, 

Andrew Burgess, 

Calvin I, Gamble, 

Benjamin Dawney, 
Samuel W. BeamJ 



M'GinleyJ. Wilhelm 
Jas. B. Worthington, 
Samuel W. Croft, 



William Campbell, 
William J. Harrison, 



\st. Lieut. 



2d Lieut. 



\st Serg't. 
2d " 

3d " 

ith " 

5th " 

Corporal. 



John A, Harrie, 



11 



Musician. 






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Promoted to Colonel of Regi- 
ment. 

From 1st Lieutenant, Aug. 15, 
1862. Wounded, severely, in 
battle of Fredericksburg, Va., 
Dec. 13, 1862. Slightly Avounded 
at Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863. 

Promoted, Aug. 26, 1862, from 
Orderly Sergeant. Wounded, se- 
verely, in battle at Fredericks- 
burg, Dec. 13, 1862. 

Wounded, severely, in battle 
of Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862. 
Captured at Chancellorsville, 
May, 3, 1863. 

To 1st Lieutenant. 

Discharged, Jan'y 14, 1863, at 
Camp near Falmouth, Va. 

Wounded, at Chancellorsville, 
May 3, 1863. 

Promoted to 1st Sergeant, Aug. 
26, 1862. 



Wounded, at Fredericksburg, 
Dec. 13, 1862. 

Reduced to the ranks, by order 
of Lieut. Col. D. W. Rowe, Jan. 

27, 1863. 



Reduced to the ranks, by order 
of Lieut. Col. D. W. Rowe, Jan. 

27, 1863. 

Discharged March 2,1863, Camp 
near Falmouth, Va., for disabili- 
ty, by order of Maj. Gen. Meade. 

Prisoner, at Chancellorsville, 
May 3, 1863. 



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RANK. 



KEMARKS. 



k 



Martin L. Staubs, 
Anderson William J. 
Boatman Wm. F. 
Burke William H. 

Brindle Jeremiah, 

Baker Augustus, 
Benjamin Wm. JST. 
Bowers Nicholas M. 



Cebolt Elias H. 
Coons John M. 

Claudv William M. 
Dielil Hugh, 
Doyle James, 
DetrichWilliamT. C. 

Detrich Jacob H. 

Elder Samuel C. 

Elliot llobert F. 



Everett John W. 
Ferguson David, 
Fickes David D. 
Gillan John W. 
Gaston William A. 

Gray James H. 



Gray Thomas, 
CJray William, 
Guyer David C. 
Haiston William, 
Haiston Mercer D. 
Harrison A. 8t. Clair, 



Plancock Solomon, 
Hurley Samuel, 
Hoover Joseph, 
Jones George C. 

Kissel Thomas R. 
Kerr Robert, 



Wagoner. 
Private. 



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II 
II 

II 



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II 



Died, January 3, 1863, .at Camp 
near F'almouth, Va. 

Taken prisoner at Fredericks- 
burg, Va., Dee. 13, 1862. 



Severely wounded, in leg, at 
Chancellorsville, May 3, 1863. 
Taken prisoner, and died shortly 
after. 

Prisoner, at Chancellorsville, 
May 3, 1863. 



Died, Feb. 24, 1863, in camp 
near Falmouth, Va. 

Promoted to 4th Serg't, Aug. 
26, 1862. 

Wounded, at Fredericksburg, 
Dec. 13, 1862. 

Wounded, in action, at Frede- 
ricksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862.— 
Died, Jan'y 2, 1863. 



Wounded, at Chancellorsville, 
May 3, 1863. 

Promoted to Corporal Jan'y 27, 
1863. Wounded and taken pris- 
oner at Chancellorsville, May 3, 
1863. 



Deserted, Oct. 5, 1862. 



Not twenty-one years of age, 
and taken away by his father, 
Aug. 13, 1862. 



Promoted to Corporal, Januarv 
27, 1863. 



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NAMES. 



KANK. 



REMARKS. 



Kridle John W. 
Lee Samuel, 

Leedy William, 

Landis Henry, 
Myers Samuel, 

Mason James H. 



M'Lain Alex'rC. 
Miller Daniel, 
Maclay Samuel T. 

M'Lain Brice B. 

Pomeroy Andrew A, 

Ritter Lewis, 



Ricker Cyrus M. 
Rose Henry, 
Rhodes William H. 



Reamer Jacob F. 

Skinner David H. 
Stitt John H. 

Skinner John A. 
Swain Geo. A. 

Shirk Jacob, 
Shearer Samuel A. 
Shearer Joseph B. 

Smith John , 

Saltsman James D. 
Sackman Jacob, 
Sellers John E. 
Sellers James A. 
Shirk Joseph A. 
Stark Newel D. 

Sliafer Joseph, 

Skinner Calvin M. 



Private. 



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Wounded, at Chancellorsville, 
May 3, 1863. 

Deserted, August 16, 1862, at 
Harrisburg, Pa. 

Deserted, October 29, 1862, at 
Sharpsburg, Md. 

Discharged, Feb'y 21, 1863, for 
disability, by order of Brig. Gen. 
Sykes, commanding Corps. 



Wounded, at Fredericksburg, 
Dec. 13, 1862. 

Died, Dec. 27, 1862, Cami?, near 
Falmouth, Va. 

Wounded in arm, at Chancel- 
lorsville, May 3, 1863. 

Discharged for disability, Feb. 
25, 1863, Camp near Falmouth, 
Va., by order of Brig. Gen. Hum- 
phreys, Commanding Corps, 



Wounded, in action, at Frede- 
ricksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862.— 
Died, Dec. 21, 1862. 

Wounded, at Fredericksburg, 
Va., Dec. 13, 1862. 

Missing at Chancellorsville, 
May 3, 1863, and never heard of. 

Died, Dec. 24, 1862, Camp near 
Falmouth, Va. 



Died, Dec. 28, 1862, Camp near 
Falmouth, Va. 

Wounded at Chancellorsville, 
Va. May 3, 1863. 



Wounded, at Fredericksburg, 
Va., Dec. 13, 1862. 

Wounded, at Chancellorsville, 
Va., May 3, 1863. 

Wounded, at Chancellorsville, 
Va., May 3, 1863. 



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>AMEvS. 


UANK. 


KEMAUKS. 


Hullivau Theodore, 


Private. 




Varner Noali, 


ti 




Wilson Thomas B. 


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Discharged, Nov. 21, 1SC2, by 
order of Brig. Gen. Butterfield. 


Wilson Wm. M'C. 


i< 


Taken iirieoner at Chancellors- 
ville, May 3, 1803. 


Williams James, 


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Woods John F. 


(t 


Discharged, for disability. 


Wyant John P. 


(( 




Wentling Andrew 


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Wagner Henry B. 


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Promoted to Corporal, Jan'y 
27, lS(i3. 


Yager Jeremiah, 


11 




Zigler Jacob, 


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NAMKS. 



RANK. 



EEMARICS. 



Amos H. Martin, 

William H. Davis, 

Lewis Degan, 

William Llttlefield, 
Jam3H M. Shai'ow, 

William M. Allison, 

George Goshen, 

J, Wesley Reynolds, 

Liician W. Dunn, Jr. 

Calvin B. Harris, 

Lswis J. Givler, 
John N. Banks, 
John H. Wright, 

John P. Williams, 
John H. Sharow, 
Alanson D. Wood, 

Banks B. Logan, 

Andrews Wesley, 
Akley James D, 

Basam Simon, 

Bri.stline William, 

Borg Frederic De 
Brennishaltz H. M. 
Baumgardner Adam, 
Brackhill Stewart T. 



.</ 



Captain. 

\st Lieut. 

2d Lieut. 

Ifit Sercjt. 
2d Sergt. 

M Sergt. 

Uh Sergt. 

hih Sergt. 

Corporal. 

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II 
II 
II 

Musician. 
Private. 



Discharged lor disability, Feb. 
27, 1863, at Harrisburg. 

Promoted to Regim'l Qr. Mr. 
Serg't, August 18, 1802. 

Promoted to od Serg't, August 
18, 1862. Discharged, for disabil- 
ity, Jan'y 14, 1863. 

"Promoted to 4th Serg't. vice 
Goshen, August 18, 1862; to 3d 
Serg't, Jau'y 14, 1863. 

Promoted to 5th Serg't, vice M'- 
Clelland, Jan'y 17, 1863. 

Died, at General Hospital, Jan- 
uary 18, 1863. 

Reduced to ranks, Dec. 11, 1862. 

Discharged, for disability, Feb- 
ruary 7, 1863. 



Promoted to Corporal, Jan'y 
17, 1863. 

"•Discharged, for disability, Jan, 
13, 1863, by order of Gen. Meade. 

Discharged, Jan'y 13, 1863, by 
order Gen. Meade, for disability. 



Discharged, for disaltility, Oct. 
25, 1862, bv order of Gen. Porter. 5 



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NAMES. 



RANK. 



REMARKS. 



Barnard David, 
Butt Jacob H. 
Biddle William, 
Barkley Cornelius, 

Bathgate Thomas, 
Bell Ephraim, 

Cadreny John Lewis, 
Coder Thomas B. 
Chamberlin Cheny J, 
Chappie John, 



Carruthers Thos. N, ! 

Cope Philip J. 
Call ins John, 



Curwin Joseph, 
Chesnut William, 

Dunn Lucian W. Sr. 
Etke Simon, 
Egles Adolj^h, 
Fletcher John, 
Faisic Alanson H. 

Forsyth Robert, 
Groiiinger Wm. H. 
Gross David. 
Geedy William, 
Geedy George, 

Heaps Amos. 
Hatttield Levi, 
Hawk William, 

Henry John, 

Kerch ner Isaac H. 
Kauflman Morgan, 
Kline Washington, 
Kennedy John N. 
Kirk John W. 
Kaltwriter William, 

Leonard Thomas, 
Myers William T. 
Myers George W. 
Mosser Amos, 
M'Caheru William, 



Private. 




Wounded, at Chauoellorsville, 
May 3, 1863. 

Killed at Chancellorsville, May 
3, 1863. 



Discharged, for disability, Jan- 
uary 13, 1863, by order of Gen. 
Meade. 

Wounded, at Chancellorsville, 
May 3, 1863. 

Discharged, for disabilitv, Sep- 
tember 24, 1862, at Fort Wood, 
N. Y. 

Discharged, for disabilitv, Jan. 
14, 1863. 



Captured, at Chancellorsville, 
May 6, 1863. 



Wounded at Chancellorsville, 
May 3, 1863. 



Wounded at Chancellorsville, 
May 3, 1863. 

Wounded at Chancellorsville, 
May 3, 1863. 



Discharged, for disabilitv, Ap'l 
3, 1863. 







COMPANY I. 




NAMES. 


RANK. 


REMARKS. 


Moore Williatn H. 


Private. 


Wounded at Chancellorsville, 
May 3, 1863. 


Martin Joseph, 


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M'Gouagle Alfred, 


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Discharged, for disability, Dec. 

23, 18(52. 


M'Clellan Cornelius, 


i. 


To 5th Serg't Aug. 18, 1862, vice 
Reynolds; to 4th Serg't Jan'y 17, 
1863, vice same. 


Martin Jacob E. 


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O'Neal John, 


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O'Neal Joseph, 


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Pennebaker Moses, 


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Pennebaker Daniel, 


11 




Patton William, 


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Died, of wounds received at 
Chancellorsville, May 3, 1S63. 


Parker Cloyd, 


(( 


Promoted to Corporal, Dec. 11, 

1862. 


Rowe William, 


l( 




Robison AVilliam S. 


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Roth Joseph B. 


II 




Rowe George, 


<l 




Shirk William V. 


11 




Stimmel Joseph W. 


II 




Snively Elias, 


11 




Shirk William J. 


11 


Discharged, for disability, Dec. 
29, 1862. 


Stine Daniel, 


II 




Showers Michael M, 


(> 


Deserted, Sept. 19, 1862. Re- 
turned to Camp, March 17, 1863. 


Singer Corbet D. 


11 




Showers David P. 


11 




Saylor Allen, 


11 




Smith Wellington, 


11 




Stump Mathide, 


II 


Wounded, in action, at Chan- 
cellorsville, May 3, 1863. Dis- 
charged July, 1863. 


Venammon Thomas, 


ii 


Discharged, for disability, Mar. 
28, 1863. 


Walls George, 


II 


Killed, at the battle of Chan- 
cellorsville, May 3, 1863. 


Wharton Kepner, 


II 


Discharged, for disabilitv, Mar. 

28, 1863. 


Wallace Henry, 


II 


Died, in Camp near Sharps- 






burg, Md., of fever, Oct. 23, 1862. 


Wise Samuel, 


11 


Discharged, for disabilitv, Feb. 


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25, 1863. 



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I RANK. 



REJIARKS. 



Davifl Watson Rowe, 



Andrew R. Davison, 



John Gilmore Rowe, 



John W. P. Reid, 
John Gihnore Rowo, 
John H. Logue, 
William Snyder, 
Simon W. Ruploy, 

Henrv Striekler, 



Iiimanuel Hawbecker, 

Wm. C. Byers, 

i Scott K. Snivcly, 
i Tliomas Daly, 

I 



¥•■ 



Captain. 



Captain. 



\st Lieut. 



2d Lieut. 
1st Serg't. 
•2d Serg't. 
3d Serg't. 
Ath S'Tfi'f. 

5th Serg't. 



Corporal. 



Elected Major Aug. 9, 1862. Pro- 
moted to Lieut. Col., Aug. 15, 1862. 

Promoted from 1st Lieut., Aug. 
0, 18:52. Acting Major of Reg't 
at the battle of Chaiicellorsville. 

Pj-omoted from Orderly Serg't, 
Au,ii;ust9, 18B2. Wounded, severe- 
ly, in forehead at battle of Chan- 
cellorsville, May ;>, 18(33, whilst in 
command of his eomjjany. 



Promoted to 1st Lieut. Aug. 9, 
1862, 

Wounded, at Fredericksburg, 
Dee. 13, 1862. 

Promoted to 1st Serg't, Aug. 15, 
1862. 

Promoted to 3d Serg't, Oct. 14, 
1862. Killedin action, at Chancel- 
lorsville. 

Promoted to 4th Serg't, Oct. 14, 
1862. Wounded, in k-ft arm, at 
battleofFrederie::sburg,Va.,Dec. 
13, 1862, requiring amputation. 
Discharged, April 27, 1863, at 
Findlay Hospital, D. C, 

Promoted to 5th Serg't, April 1, 
1863. 

Reduced to ranks by order of 
Col. Elder, Oct. 20, 1862. 

Color-Bearer of Reg't at Frede- 
ricksburg and Chancellorsville. 
Promoted to 4th Serg't, May 1, 
1863. 



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REMARKS. 



John M. D. Detrich, 

Joshua K. Hood, 

George F. Missavy, 

David W. Buchanan, 

John H. Byers, 

William Snodle, 
George VV. Bartlo, 
Appenzeller David K, 

AlexauUer (xcorge W. 

Bert Adam C. 

Bemisdjrfer John S. 
Beck William H. 
Byers John Boggs, 

Barr James W. 
Bartle Henry, 
Byers George M. 

liushoy Calvin, 
Bro^\•n John McC. 

Buchanan James H. 

Baughman Cyrus, 

Cleverstone Dan'l D. 
(h-ooks William W. 
C'olby George, 
Donathan James H. 
Davison John B. 

Daniels William, 

Eyier George AV. 
Ferry John W. 



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Musician. 



Wagoner. 
Private. 









Promoted to 5th Serg't, Oct. 14, 
1862. Wounded, in hand, at Fred- 
ericksburg, Dec. 18, 18()2. Dis- 
charged, lor disability, March 23, 
186?,. 

Discharged, for disability, Feb. 
lo, 1863, by order of Gen. Meade. 

Killed, in action, at Chanccl- 
lorsville. Va., INIay 3, 18G3. 

Reduced to ranks, May 4, 1803, 
by order of Lieut. Col. liowe. 

'Deserted, Oct'r 18, 18G2, from 
camp near Sharpsburg, ISId. 



Promoted to Corporal, Oct. 14, 
1862. Wou nded at battle of Fred- 
ericksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 18G2. 

Wounded, at battle of Frede- 
ricksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. 

Killed, at battle of Fredericks- 
burg, Va., Dec. 13, 1802. 



Promoted to Corporal, Oct. 20, 
1862. 



Killed, at battle of Fredericks- 
burg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. 

Appointed Regimental Wagon- 
Master, Oct. 8, 1862. Discharged, 
for disability, bv order of Gen. 
Sykes, Feb. 7, 1863. 

VV^ounded at Fredericksburg, 
by shell, Dec. 13, 1862. Dischar- 
ged, for disability, by order of 
Gen. Meade, July 2-5, 1863. 

Wounded, at battle of Frede- 
ricksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. 



Promoted to Corporal, Feb. 13, 
1863, by Col. Rowe. 

Discharged, for disability, Jan. 
14, 1863, b^^ order of Maj. Gen. 
Meade. 

On dctatched duty at Gen'l 
Hospital, from Oct. 29, 1862. 

Ambulance driver. 



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REMAKKS. 



Eachus James C. 



Frye Charles M. 

Frye Jonas M. 
Gardner Philip L. 
Gordon John C. R. 
Gordon Jeremiah C. 
Hollar James Wilson, 



HammiP Albertus K. 



Holman Joseph, 
Hyssong Jeremiah C. 

Ilginfritz Isaiah, 
Kreps Michael H. 
Kunkle Charles H. 
Kuhn John W. 
Keims William T. 
Lear Jacob, 
Lowe John, 
Lowe Philip C. F. 
Laughlin Henry, 
Morehead James C. 



Marshall John A. 
Mowers Samuel, 

Mitchell James, 

Newcomer Charles H. 
Palmer John, 
Parker William H. 



Palmer Samuel, 
Potter George H. 
Palmer Charles H. 

Pensinger Lazarus, 
Pool Jacob W. 
Palmer Simon, 
Pensinger David N. 
Pawling George, M. 
Pentz David. 
Rupert William F. 




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Detailed, permanently, lor 
Provost Guard at Corps Hd. Q'rs 
from Sept. 22, 1862, to end of 
service. 

Died, of disease, in hospital, 
Jan'y 23, 1863. 



Provost Guard, at Corps Hd. 
Q'rs, from Sept. 22, 1862, to end 
of service. 

Absent, sick, at Greencastle, 
from Oct. 21, 1862, to end of ser- 
vice. 

Promoted to Corporal, April 1, 
1863. 



Wounded in hand at battle of 
Fredericksburg, Va., December 
13, 1862, by shell. 

Promoted to Corporal, April 1, 
1863. 

Killed, at the battle of Frede- 
ricksburg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. 



Provost Guard, at Corps Head 
Q'rs, from Sept. 22, 1862, to end 
of service. 



Discharged, for disability, Feb. 
21, 1863. 



Wounded, at Chancellorsville, 
May 3, 1S63. 





COMPANY K. 




NAMES. 



RANK. 



I 



BEMABKS. 



Robison John, 
Reymer Michael D. 



Rule David, 
Ritter Jacob, 
Reneker Samuel, 

Shook George W. 



Salmon James. 

Shirey James, 
Stoner Joel, 

Shirey Charles H. 

Snively William H. 

Shoaf Amos J, 
Stoner Joseph C. 



Spidle Henry M. 
Shatzer Joseph, 
Snively Isaac, 



Unger Jacob A. 
Valentine Gilbert, 
Winkfield Jacob, 
Weiser Reuben, 
Wagner John M. 
Wilders William A. 
Zeigler George F. 



Zimmerman Andrew 



Private. 






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Detached from Company for 
duty as one of Provost Guards, at 
5th Corps Hd. Q'rs, Sept. 22, 1862, 
to end of service. 



Promoted to Corporal, May 3, 
1863. 

Died, of wounds received at 
the battle of Fredericksburg, Va., 
in a charge made by the Reg't on 
the Rebel works, Dec. 13, 1862. 

Died, of disease, in Regimental 
Hospital, Feb. 23, 1863. 

Promoted to Corporal, May 4, 
1863. 

Killed in battle, at Fredericks- 
burg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. 

Taken prisoner at Chancellors- 
ville, May 3, 1863. 

Discharged, for disability, Ap'l 
12, 1863, Camp near Falmouth, 
Va. 

Killed, in battle at Fredericks- 
burg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. 

Killed, in battle at Fredericks- 
burg, Va., Dec. 13, 1862. 

Detached, for Provost duty at 
Corps Hd. Q'rs, Sept. 22, 1862, at 
Sharpsburg, Md., and did not re- 
join company until muster-out. 



Promoted to 3d Serg't, Aug. 
15, 1862. Promoted to Sergeant- 
Major, Aug. 18, 1862. 

Died, in Regimental Hospital, 
Camp near Falmouth, Va., Dec. 
1, 1862. 









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A SKETCH OF THE 126th REOTMENT PENN- 
SYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS. Preparad by g-a Offi- 
cer and sold for the benefit of the Franklin Coanty Sol- 
diers' Monumental Association. Cook &. Hays, CUam- 
bersburff. 1869. 12 mo. pp. 100. 

We are furnished by our publishing office with 
an advance copy of the volume having the above 
title, which is soon to be issued and sold for the 
object indicated upon its title page. We have 
read it with pride and the keenest pleasure, and 
we are much mistaken if the thousands who will 
f follow us throuith the admirably told story of the 
126th's trials and hardships and glories will not 
to the full partake of both with us when once 
they have begun the reading. Everything con- 
spires to make this an interesting book. The 
ranks of the regiment whose history is herein 
sketched were filled with the choicest of our 
youth, whose family connections embraced the 
most of the community and bound them up in 
heart and soul with the fortunes of the regiment. 
The war to which they went plainly had involved 
the life ef the nation, the stage of the struggle 
attained, when they set out", was that supreme 
moment when the continued baffiings of hope had 
given rise to vexation, to grief and to gloom. 
The fast-follov^ing incidents of the memorable 
campaigns of their service, varied by alternate tri 
uraphs and defeats, the imminent perils to and the 
signal deliverances of the very homes left by the 
soldif^ry from the hand of the invader and snoiler 
intensified the interest felt by all at home, as well 
for the welfare of tham away as for themselves 
and for the land. Patriotism had its keen edge 
sharpened by the whetting of affection and self- 
love. 

With breathless impatience, consequently, men 

and women waited for the electric message and 

too often with darkest forebodings chided even 

'the lightning's delay in imparting the longed for 

and yet dreaded news. The nine mouths — brief 



enough now, when the story of their contribution 
to the great work is seen to form but a single 
act in the great melodrama played by hosts iu 
the face of the world and of the centuries — drag- 
ged their Vv'eary length along to the paleiug of 
men's cheeks and the breaking of women's hearts. 
How many there live to-day from whose memo- 
ries the racking anxieties and the crushing griefs 
of that period neither time will efface the marks, 
nor afteijiiys and bie.^sings assuage and compen- 
sate ! How many, alas, there were whose light 
and gladness expired ere the compensation came, 
and who were unable to live when tbey might no 
longer love, or loving never more embrace ! Yet 
there were many, for whom, though the battle's 
chances threatened their dear ones, and the ago- 
nies of a nation's convulsive struggle for life 
touched their nearest sympathies. Providence re- 
served only the anxiety of the moment, and with- 
held nothing but the infliction of grief Their 
loved ones were untouched upon the perilous line 
of fire— hard service brought them honor, and 
brave deeds applause. Manly virtue was to be 
etrenethened by experience, by suftering and 
temptation, knowledge increased by the teach- 
ings of the stern school of war, and out of all the 
stripling aud (he novice were to come the full 
grown and disciplined protectors and cherisher 
oi home. Aud they did so come. On the glad 
dny when the term of enlistment was fully 
ended, the last contracted engagement fulfilled, 
the banners furled and returned to the hunds 
which had lent them, the State received bark 
more than she had sent out, the c»mmuuity 
a fair equivalent. Remembering, accordingly, 
who had gone and when and why, what they had 
done aud what it achieved, who were watching 
and waiting alike quick to grieve if mishaps be- 
f<!ll aud to be glad if fortune blessed, who were 
longing for the return with words of welcome and 
of praise, the writer was powerfully aided iu ma- 
king what ho certainly has produced — an interest- 
ing book. All classes, we think, will read it with 
eagerness — the soldier whose fortune it was to 
be enrolled; the friend who saw him go, himself 
unable to accompany ; the relative who felt the 
miseries of suspense and of anxiety ; the patriot 
who prayed for the success of our arms, all will 
Welcome this sketch. They will not find it too 



brief — thougti "a simplo chaia of occurrences has 
been forged" yet each link "will call up before 
the minds of the participants a thousand depart- 
ed and long-forgotten as8ociatio;is connected 
with bivouac and battle." The reader, whether 
ho stayed at home or wiis a member of the 
gallant regiment and fought its fights, will find 
it constantly inviting him to new remembrances 
and opening a new story at every page, the 
fresher perhaps that the story had his own 
adventure or his own thoughts for its cen- 
tre. Nor is it too long — apart from the appen- 
dixes, it can be read at a single sitting ; 
and having the unity of a well-contrived drama 
it lures the reader on to its conclusion. In the 
regiment's name, and we are sure in the name of 
our readers, we thank the writer for his graceful 
sketch . 

The object of his writing is another subject of 
thanks. The book ought to sell largely — we are 
sure it will. The profits are meant for that mon- 
ument which, long ago, a grateful people should 
have erected to their dead heroes. That Provi- 
dence preserved our National life, we profess to 
be profoundly grateful for ; to the brave men who 
sleep in the soil they defended and whom we year- 
ly delight to honor with garlands and with words 
of praise as the instruments whereby Providence 
wrought our preservation, it is our bounden duty, 
under Heaven, to set up an enduring mark of our 
gratitude which may testify when we sleep be- 
side them, how we cherished their memory; 
which may foster in our children a desire to emu- 
late, when occasion offers, their patriotism and 
their work. 

Shame be upon us, as lip-servers, if we do not ! 
As bad the reproach of niggard as of craven. 
Lot a monument rise which shall be as imperish- 
able as the virtues and the services it commemo- 
rates! A beginning has been made — the fund 
has been started— for its increase we hope that 
the edition of this book will be rapidly sold, and 
another called for before the approach.of spring. 






A Sketch of the 126th Rsgiment Penii^I 
SYLVANiA Volunteers.— Prejjared by. 
an Officer of the Refiiment. Puh]i.shf"d 
by Cook & Hays, Repository Office, 
Chumbensburg, Pa. 

We have examined the advance sheets of 
this book and are heartily pleased with it. 
It ha.s been prepared with great care by an 
Officer of the Regiment, with a manifest in- 
tention to do no injustice to any one, and to 
give honor to those to whom honor is due. 
It is a very succinct and, we believe, truth- 
ful history of the Regiment. Our citizens 
will all remember Ihi.s regiment. Many of 
Ihetn had dear relatives in its ranks. Oth- 
ers had friends and acquaintances among 
the number, wliom they followed withanx- 
ioTus hearts through the nine months of their 
service. To all these it will be interestini; 
to read of the dangers through which those 
soldiers passed. To some w'ho read its pag- 
es, they will recall dear ones who sickened 
and died of di.sease in the camp, and others 
who fell in the forefront of the battle with 
thfeir facts to the foe. . 

The book details the principal incidents 
in the career of the regiment from the time 
of its organization to the time of its being 
mustered out of service. It will be remem- 
bered that this regiment took part in the 
bloody battles of Fredericksburg aud Chan- 
cellorsville, and acquitted itself with signal 
honor in both. The reports of the part 
taken in these conflicts by the Brigade of 
which the 126lh formed>a part, were kindly 
furnislied by General Tyler, who com- 
manded the Brigade, and are printed in 
this volume. Thes^i reports make the first 
Appendix. The second Appendix is made 
up of the list of casualties in the regiment, 
and the third, of the namesof the Field and 
StatJ' officers, non-commissioned oflQcers and 
privates, the latter being given by compa- 
nies. 



It is well kuown to our people that au or- 
ganiz-ation is in existence knov/n as the 
Franklin County Monumental Associatioti, 
which has for its object the rearing of a 
monument to the memory of the dead sol- 
diers of Franklin County. It was thought 
that a volume like this, so interesting to 
the soldiers and the friends of the soldiers, 
would meet with a ready and extensive 
sale, and it was suggested that the money 
realized should help to swell the fund of tile 
Monumental Association. For this pur- 
pose it is now being published. The book 
will be neatly bound and sold at one dollar, 
and our citizens will thus be able to keep a 
permanent record of the doings of a regi- 
ment in which they felt the liveliest inter- 
est, and, at the same time, will contribute 
to the erection of a monument in honor of 
the dead of this regiment, as well as those 
of other regiments who laid their lives upon 
their country's altar. Orders for the book 
j should be sent to W. S. Stenger, Treasurer 
I of the Monumental Association. 



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I»AR,T I. 

ASSEMBLY AT 1 O'CLOCK, P. M., AT THE COURT HOUSE. 

ORDER OF EXERCISES. 

PRAYER Rev. J. Ault. 

ADDRESS OF WELCOME Lt. Col. D. W. Rowe. 

MUSIC. 

ADOPTION OF CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS. 

ELECTION OF ANNUAL OFFICERS. 
SELECTION OF PLACE OF NEXT MEETING. 

MUSIC. 
ANNUAL ORATION, Adjutant John Stewart. 



I»A^R,T II. 

BANQUET IN REPOSITORY HALL, FRO^NI 5 P. M., TO 7}^ P. M. 



Coasts. 



The Union. Pennsylvania, the Keystone. The Army. The 
Flag. The Citizen Soldier. The 126th Regt. P. V. Our Dead Com- 
rades. The Patriotic Women of America. The loyal people of tlie 
Border, wlio fought the enemy at the front, while their homes were 
ravaged by rebel invaders. Our Fulton County Comrades. Our Juni- 
ata County Comrades. 



i»A.nT III. 

ADJOURNMENT TO THE COURT HOUSE, ly^ P. M. to 9 P. M. 

ADDRESSES. 



RECITATIONS. } ::SHERiimAN's Ride," 



'Charge of the Light Brigade.' 



I»A.R,T IV. 

PROMENADE CONCERT IN HALL, FROM 9 O'CLOCK TO 12 M., 
MUSIC, REFRESHMENTS, &c, 



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ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



Delivered at the Re-anlon of tbe I26(h 
Reg. P. v., Dec. 13, 1870, 

BY LIEUT. COL. D. W. HOWE. 



Comrades: — The committee of arran^emedts 
appointed at a meetiog of thetifficersi of the 126th 
Regiment, which conyened at Troatle's Hotel, m 
this borough, on the 13th of May last, the unni- 
versary of the battle of CbancellorsTille, to arrange 
for this reunion of the whole regiment, on the 
anniversary of the battle of Fredericksburg, have 
done me the honor, to request that I would wel- 
come you to the business and the festivities of 
this occasion. I shall neither deny nor conceal 
that the duty is a pleasant one. Nothing which 
concerns the regiment is indifferent to me. For 
its dead I have unbounded sorrow, for its survi- 
vors a sentiment of fraternity and the extended 
hand ot cordial friendship. Its good name every 
one of us feels to be in his own peculiar keeping. 
The memories of (he old regiment are cherished 
in our inmost hearts, and will expire only with 
our latest breaths. To welcome you, my old 
comrades and friends, after an interval of seven 
years, to a renewal of friendships, and an in- 
terchange of greetings, under such happy auspices 
and auguries, is, believe me, for I use no hollow 
professioDS, a duly that is remunerated in tbe 
performance, if only I shall suitably impress you 
with the cordiality of our welcome. 

In whoee name shall I welcome you? 

In that of the officers who pre-arranged this 
meeting, whose spokesman I am more immedi- 
ately. For one allowable source of pride there 
is to them, that they commanded such men. 
Whatever their own deficiencies, and they were 
the result for the most part of the unwarlike era 
which preceded the rebellion, when for so many 
years the country basked in the sunshine of peace, 
and the sword was, if not in very fact, at least 



afainsl literally, turned into plow shares and 
ip<ars into pruning hooks, one all-sufficient com- 
pensatioutbey found in the dispositions of the men 
tbey commanded. For what mattered it to have 
skilled and efficient commanders, when every man 
in the ranks was intelligent enough to under- 
stand his duly and patriotic enough to do it? 
Had it not been for this, the South would indeed 
have had a great advantage over u«. For their 
officers and leaders were for the most part and 
to some extent accustomed to arms and to the 
c«>mmar;d of men, and to the treatment of them 
as inferiors and subordinates. But yours were 
like yourselves inured to the pursuits of industry 
and accustomed to equality, and they were never 
able at any time fully to play the superior, even 
on proper and indeed necessary occasions.— 
You, by yourcbarscterand conductenabled them 
to command with credit, ana even in the end to • 
be victorious, and so to reflect upon their past 
career with pleasure and sometimes even with 
pride. Our officers, when the piping times 
of peace had returned again, end war's stern 
alarums were changed to merry meetings, had 
nothing so much at heart as to draw you togelher 
that you who did the work might receive the 
reward, and that having suffered hardships in 
common, you might in common and together re- 
joice in the fruition of your labors. 

I do not hesitate to welcome you also in the name 
of the old regiment, whose baptism of fire at 
Fredericksburg this day recalls and com- 
oiemorates. But is not this the regiment 
which now re unites? Not so, my comrades. 
That body which marched so gaily out of Harris- 
burg, in August, 1862, which listened to the 
thunders of second Bull Run and Aiitietam, and 
went up Marye's Heights at Fredericksburg, and 
down into the dense woods at Chancellorsville, 
exists no more. It is a recollection only — a thing 
that once was. but is no more An ephemeral 
existencf, that, as we now look back upon its 
career, lived but a short summer's day and then 
passed from sight, leaving behind only such 
memories as linger after the death of a beautiful 
child, all sadly pleasant and cherished with pain. 
, For the memory of the past is a sigh. 

The old regiment, as it once existed in organi 
ijzed shape, strong in the united strength of a 



tbousand youthful hearts fired with patriotittn, 
beautiful as it Btood forth clothed in all the paro- 
ply of war, around whose standard you gathered, 
under whose banners you marched to champion 
the grandest cause that ever men fought for by 
laud or sea, or for which ever kbightly lance 
was laid in rest, or ever hero did a deed of derriug^ 
do — sleeps in the graves of the departed and is 
nothing in the sphere of sublunary things. This 
phantom which we call the 126th Regiment, if it 
seems to you to appear again, to day, arises to 
your memories and afiectioni alone. Some of its 
elements and factors only are here. The words 
of the mustering oflicer spoke it into existence, 
and at his command it perished. And inas- 
much as it lives to day only in your fancies— 
and can never henceforth exist otherwise — I 
imagine the shade of the old regiment is grateful 
for this day's reunion, its revivification of the 
events of the years that are gone, when the 
regiment made part of the grand army of the 
Kepublicand had "a local habitation and a name" 
among mortal existences, andfis delighted at the 
spectacle which this hall now presents. 

Above all, I welcome you here and to tbi^ 
reunion in the name of the patriotie people of 
Franklin county, who sent you out with their 
blessings, and received you back with manificeiit 
ovations. 

Can any of us forget how this people, our 
kindred trnd friends, burthened with the weight 
of the great contest and already beginning to 
writhe under its wounds, their tears of sorrow 
mingling with their smiles of encouragement, 
sent us, their brothers and sons, forth to the 
battle, with every hope and wish and blessing, 
themselves consumed with a secret fear both for 
■B and our country^-and envying us the felicily- 
of the power lo do and strike as veil as to pray 
and hope for the success of the cause? Are 
their letters forgotton, steadying us, stimulating 
us 7 Are the numbers in which they flocked to us, 
when opportunity offered, with presents and every 
token of regard, no longered remembered? What 
deep excitement pervaded these homes after a 
disastrous battle! What sincere mourning for 
our comrades who fell on the field of honor! 
What a recfptiou to the survivors when, their 



period of service eh fed, they retii rned to rteV 
friends, welcomed with every manifestation of 
pride and delight! And this same people, again 
and again, since that time, have made evident 
their regard for you, have suffered no opportunity 
to pass to express it, have sought occasions to 
testify to it. They, to a great extent, placed the 
good name of the county in your keeping, when 
they sent so largo a body of you out together to 
do valiantly for the Union of their Fathers, and 
because you kept well your trust, they honor 
you and see you with pleasure assemble on the 
occasion of the reunion. 

To what do I welcome you? 

To a renewal of friendships, to an interchange 
of gratulations, to cordial handshakings, to the 
expression of emotions long desiring utterance, 
to a bursting of the barriers of mere conventiou* 
alism and a genuine restoration of sundered ties 
of association, onco as strong and firm as those 
of almr-etany other possible relation in life; to 
an abandonment of yourselves to good fellowship 
within the bounds of decorum, and a thorough 
enjoyment of the day, divested of all cares save 
to be happy whilst the day lasts, and to make all 
the cumrades and friends delighted with the oc 
casion. Carpe diem! Seize these fleetiiig hours 
dedicated to the memories of your soldier life, 
live over again the scenes of the war times; re- 
call the pleasing occurreqces and if you cbvoM 
the "moving incidents by flood and field" in your^ 
career, sinitke again in fancy your pipes at tbo. 
tent doors surrounded by close friends and true 
companions, and let some one tell a tale or story 
and the clear, ringing laugh resound. I invite 
you to a day's thorough enjoyment, the cares of' 
life laid aside, and troubles dismissed and for- 
gotten. Shall we.have never a day of unalloyed 
happiness? Is heaven so stern as to forbid an 
interval of joy? If ever you may be happy, it is 
permitted to you to be so now — Heaven is propi- 
tious, your fellow men will applaud. Something 
of business there is for you to do. A moment 
must be devoted to perfecting the organization of 
the association we to-day establish, we trust to 
be long maintained, even to the far off days when 
half a dozen decrepit men shall alone remain to 
represent the 126th, and recall the glorious, his 
tone days of to them '"auld la^g syne." Thisdone, 



a banquet awaits ymi, where' thegroaning tables, 
like a sorely pressed garrieon, call loudly to be 
relieved, and the caterer for thia reunion expecta 
with anxiety your coming, and,(pa!lid, waits to 
hear his Highland Jenny cry, 

"Did'na ye hear their slogan." 
Let us see to-da^ that "it is inerry in ball, 
where beards wag all." Something pleasant we 
fM&ye endeavored tA'proWde for every momeDt of 
time. What with tortsts and responses, and ad- 
dresses and recitations, and music and refresh- 
ments, it IS hoped lo carry you delightedly for- 
ward to the promenade concert, when with ihe 
ladies and the mufic leading the festivities, the 
day shall end, like a successful exhibition of 
fire works, in a blaze of brilliancy In hhort, 
though I may not offer you a least of reason, I 
invite you to an overflow of soul 

I observe that in accordance with the invita- 
tions extended you, your wives and your friends 
have come up on the feast day to enjoy them 
selves with you. They are welcome. It is 
nothing to us to be offered happiness, if they may 
not participate. They were never forgotten in 
the days we commemorate, and are not lo be 
omitted now. Without them the reunion could 
not be a success. The better-half part of the 
programme would bo necessarily omitted Some 
of the comrades, however, have not realized, 
after the Inpse of so long a time, the reasonable 
expectation of iheir companions in arms In 
their march through life they have no .supporting 
column, and no entrenched camp guarded by 
, love, the sharpest eyed of sentries. You seem to 
jivoid capture by the ladies with the same anxie- 
, ty you tried to escape the rebels. You even run, 
it is said, at thefirst attack. Do yon not perceive 
how your reputation for courage suffer:'? For 
,.«hame ! No Audersonville awaits the captive of 
the fnir, and "Libby" has no horrors for her 
prisoner. She will not release you a green as 
well as wretched shadow, however she cup 
tures you; but will lead you a dance of de- 
lightful measures, alvvays, loyal sir, to the music 
of the Union. We know that faint heart never 
won fair lady, and that none but the brsve de 
serve the fair, and we lament that your courage 
has died out. Or are there really positions in the 
^eld matrimoniitl, not so formidable in appear- 
ance, still httrder to take by storm than Maryo's 



Heights at Fredericksburg? Well, we are willing"' 
to believe it for your eakes and because some of J 
the comra.ios here with wives and bahi.'H hesi.ie 
them— (in that I must profoundly coi'gratulate i 
them— have encountered xoiae infantry since 
the war ended harder to conquer than ever was 
Stoiiewalljackson's. •- 

On look ing over the muster-roll of the regiment, j 
I am di lighted to ob8(M-ve how many of our boys 
came back to take the "gifla they left behind 
them " I thought it would be so, ou the days 
when l8awthem,.liksipt'»l^,<9p/w.W..i>..8toHtt.w;ill , 
OD a sunshiny day, thrusting out long necks 
from their tents to catgh a v^ew of some piece of 
Virginia calico which whs sailing down the road, j 
and then retiring back to their bunks to sing, 
after the manner of the. dying swan, whose note is 
always, you know, most beautiful just before death, 
"Annie Laurie." These same girls, who were so 
constantly screeched out by the life, and 'drdm- 
med out" by the drum as left behind, I to-day 
welcome, having at length come up, with all pos- 
sible cordiality. 

We went forth, comrades, eight hundred men 
from this county of Franklin. Aa I look over 
this assembly now, many of the comrades are 
here indeed, but a majority of those who took the 
oath and shouldered arms at Harrisburg are not 
here. Where are they? and why do they not 
participate? Some valiant and noble youths we 
wrapped in their blankets and buried to the sound 
of the muflSed drum in the enemy's land. They 
sleep in soldiers' graves, having met death in the 
midst of battle. 

"Their bodies' are dust, 
An«l their good swords rust, 
And their souU are with the laintt 
We trust." 
It was their fortune (shall I call it an evil 
one?) to die for their country. It was a 
happy one, if indeed it be true, as Kosciusko 
dying said, and many champions of fatherland 
before him, that it is sweet and becoming to die 
for one's country. Dulce et decorum pro patriam 
mori. They sleep in honored graves. Their 
fame is secure. No error of theirs can impair the 
debt of grHtitude we owe them. They live io 
our memories youthful heroes. We pity them 
for their youth, we adipire them for their great 
hearts It it is permitted to them to know and 
be interested in mundane affairs, and they per- 



CMve from the Btan-y Kpheren above the VeauT^^'^ Our citizens' were our eoldiers, aud to-daf we j 

observe a great phenomenon in the old world of ^ 
the same kind. Germany's citizens are also her 
Bolilers. And such great things have been !e((V 
eomplisbed by the citizen soldiers in two hemic- 
phers, in recent days, that henceforth it is d€- 
creed that a standing army of professioDal 8oI- 
diers, a body separate and apart from and above 
the citizens, from them but not of them, thall 
not be found. The hireling butchers of a despot 
vv ill never ugain confront the armed citizens, 
fighting for fatherland, their weapons guided by 
patriotism and intelligence. Henceforth armies 
will not be the play things of monarchs and the 
tool8 of ambition, nor battles be tought for the 
glory of dynasties, or houses; but war will be 
mttdp only for the genuine interests of the Com- 
uioiiwealth, since it cannot be made without 
the i>i:>currence and assent of the citizens; forin- 
telIij;pnoe will guide the ballot, and tb«* man who 
votes will be the man to fight. 

The tiischarged soldieis of the Uuion tbcTtfore 
are not a class, but only a fraternity, Assoeiatiou 
in dangers and hardships makes fast Iri'ud^, hy 
a natural law, and Irotfiers in arms &\6 of k'u. 
They ar(\ indeed, in oue sense, kindred by blood 
Our re iitiion today is the outgrowth of thi* 
sentinu nt of fraternity. Companions in arms are 
held iKgrther, as it were, by » specifs of fr(>e 
masonry- lud this is a fraternity old<M- than 
maaoury ii-elf When you go abroad among 
strangers your discharge is your certificate of 
membership, the pass word is Gettysburg or 
Appomalox — and the hailing sign of distress is 
the wound you bear; and these are recognized 
not only by your comrade.?, but by all people. 
Are we not a fraternity .' 

Soldier — "I belong to Gideon'* band" 

Comrade — "Here's my heait and here's my hand.'* 

When on the20lhof May, 1863, we separated, 
the war was raging. The rt-bellinn was still io 
its ascendant. But almost imun^diateiy it began 
to sink. Meade burled Lee back from Round 
Top Sheridan sent Early whirling through 
Winchester. Grant went crashing afterwards, 
tbfough the Wilderness, and taking the rebel 
army in his iron embrace, crushed the life out 
of it at Appoinatox. Then ensued the scene 
under the apple tree, on which the Union soldiers 
bad so set their heitrts to hang JelT Davis; but the 
good genius of the Rpublic, unwilling that the 



and the glory of their work here Accomplished, 
wherein is our fortune better than theirs? Nev- 
ertheless, if not for their sakes, for our own, we 
wish they were here to-day, and their absence 
' leaves a chasm in our happiness which must re- 
I main open. I must not chill with gloomy thoughts 
I now, at the outset, the festivities of this reunion, 
I but so much bad to be said, could not remain 
t unsaid. 

1 On the column which we will erect to their 
. memory, we may justly transcribe the words from 
the marble which Athens raised over her youths 
' who fell in the lost battle ef Cboaroaea: 

Tnese are the Patriot brave, who side 5y side, 
Stood to their arms and dashed the foeman's pride: 
Into the battle rushed at glory's call jj 
With firm resolve to conquer or to tall: 
That Greeks should ne'er to tyrants bend the knee, 
But live as they were born, from tbralJom free. 
They fought, they bled, and on their country's breast, 
(Such was the doom ot ileaven) th«8e heroes rest " 
Others are not here, because they have laid 
them down to die under the skies of the restored 
Union, and amidst the graves of their fathers, 
and have gone to join the former in the Elysian 
fields. Ah ! bow I love to fancy them welcomed 
by Lyons and Bnker, and Wadsworth and Sedge- 
wick and Reynolds and he above all, the commau 
der in chief, the Martyr President, not as sol- 
diers, but as the deliverers of four millions slaves 
from cruel bondage. 

And still others are absent, because they are 
scatttred all over the Union, and are far away 
from us, in the pursuit of some one or other of 
the callings ot industry. Working with their hands 
or brains, restoring the wastd of the war, archi 
I tects of their own fortunes and also of the pros- 
perity of the country. No one of them a soldier, 
; the day after Appomatox. No one of them wil- 
ling to be a hireling to the bloody trade of war, 
or be of a class separate and ap.irt from the citi- 
zens; servants of the centurions to go when they 
say go and come when they say come. The mus- 
tering out of our armies, the melting of near a 
1 million soldiers fresh from the fields of battieand 
victory, into law-abiding citizens, is "the comiog 
, mercy" of our great struggle. It is the grandest 
I fact in the history of the war. Tc transform 
I such citizens into such soldiers, was a great and 
astonishing performance; to transform such 8oI» 
diers back ugain into such citizens far surpasses it. 






arch traitor should be huug bj the hands of a 
Union Boldior, procured for him from the gods a 
meaner exit. Then the pageant at Washington 
and the disbanding o( the lirmics Then the 
replacing of \he pillars of the Temple — the vast 
work of ncoustructiou. And now, tbi8 day, 
there is what our eyes longed to behold, 
peace and union. And thertt is Liberty. Soldierg, 
the work you were given to do, is done. 

Ten years ago we were no more respected in 
the eyes of the world than are now the United 
States of Colombia W»^ were not only not a 
great power — v*f v\**re not a pow^r at all, either 
physically (.r raorallv. We made no impression 
whatever on the world. 

To day the flag ol the Union is the symbol of 
power as well as freedom, in every sea. China 
selects an AmericHn lor her chief ambassador, 
the greatest honor 1 think ever conferred. Our 
■■ minister at P.rris is the protector of the Germans* 
wLeu their own is dismissed, and is at the same 
lime the medium of negotiation between the 
great ntttions at war. TheLondon Times speaks 
of Prussia, England, and the United States of 
America, as able to lead the world We occupy 
a position side by side with Prussia, the now ac- 
knowledged leader of Continental Europe. 

That England joins herself with Prussia and 
us, IS not strange After the battle of Salamis, 
a Vote of the generals was taken as to who should 
be crowned fgr" most distinguished services^ — 
They were to indicate a first and a second. 
Every one vo^d .himself first and Themistocles 
second And it was^ agreed that Themistocles 
wasfirst Ww oii'y desire thateveryotherriation 
should fidmit us to be ues^t to itself. 

And, my comrades, \Vhat wonderful scene* 

^ are these we see onartedT In England, at 

'« great meeting of the working people to ei- 

ipress sympathy with the newly established 

Republic of France, it does not suffice to unite 

lithe tricolor of France with England's ensign; 

l^ut the flag of the Union must be entwined 

,with them both And in France, when the 

,jimpire falls like a rotten apple, at a touch, 

and the people set up theRepublic of their hearts, 

and are frantic with joy attheir liberties secured, 

ttey rush for the American flag, and waving it 

with their own, cry "Live the Republic !" "Live 

the United States!" 

f bis is what we are. What we will be is told 



in a word. The United States of America will^^~ 
not live forever. They will at last be lost in the 
United States of the World. This is the work of 
him who said when the contest was on: "/am 
needed; the work cannot be done without me." 

I must not forget to say, at this reunion of the 
126th Regiment, that no one of its soldiers has 
bad reason to blush for the regiment to which be 
belonged. Its record is without a stain. I am 
sorry that I cannot say that the record of every 
man that belonged to it is equally stainless. This 
regiment always did what it was put to do, so far 
as men might. At Fredericksburg and Chancel- 
lorsville, indeed, we were not victorious. But 
the Gods only are always successful. I saw the 
work you did. You deserved success. I vouch ' 
General Tyler, who sits here to answer, who \ 
saw you go up Marye's Heights on that eventful 
December evening, who saw you rob the cart- j 
ridge boxes of your dead comrades, in the woods \ 
at Chancellorsville, to maintain the fight. | 

Yet I have always regretted that the regiment 1 
had not the good fortune to participate in a grand 
victory, such as came on several occasions later 
in the war. It would have mitigated the sorrow 
we felt for the loss of our comrades To see 
them die in fruitless efTorts. Ah ! that was the 
bitterness of it. But we know better now. 
Nevertheless they would have been happier ia 
their deaths, if they bad died in the midst of vic- 
tory. I would we might have seen their smilei, 
and had the good fortune of the friends of Botz- 
zaris — 

"They fought like brave meo, long and well, 

They piled the ground, Tvith Moslem slain, 

They conquered, but Botzzaris fell 

Bleeding at every vein; 

His few surviving comrades saw 

His smile, whtn rang thtir proud hurrah'. 

And the red field was won; 

Then saw, in death, his eyelids close 

Calmly as to a night's repose. 

Like flowers at set of sun." 

I have insisted that the 126th played well its 
part in the grand drama of the rebellion. Its sol- 
diers now, without a blush, may fight over again 
the battles by their peaoelul firesides, of a winter 
night. Like Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim, 
they may interlard every conversation with some 
illustration from the days of the war. I do not ex- 
pect to hear them talk, however, of angles and 
bastions, salients and bulwarks, palisadoes and 



■carps and couDter soarps, and ravelins and balf- 
mouns. Ab little do I expect of all of them the 
grand answer of Capt. Toby, in reference to his 
courag<>', if theirs should be called in question: 
"Sir, I trust I am not afraid of anything but to 
do a bad action." 

But there will be many scenes to live over 
again to-day, and I detain you from them too long. 
I invito you to the business of the day, and to its 
enjoyments. Be happy in the recollection of 
duty done, and in the glorious future of your coun- 
try. For the prospect ahead is all radiant and 
inspiring. We advance to grandeur and power. 
Wo move on to Empire. The Genius of the 
Republic guides. The lamp of liberty lights the 
way. The harmony of the States as they move 
in their appointed orbits around the central sun 
of the Union, making music akin to the "muaic 
of the spheres," is the anthem to which we 
march. The great company of patriots, libera* 
tors and martyrs to wrong in all ages behold Ul 
from above. 

Already we are out of the wilderness and 
catch a glimpse of the promised land. We are 
bound for the other side of Jordan. We are al- 
ready entering the goodly land our fathers only 
saw at a distance from the top of the mount. A 
land, the hum of whose cheerful industry min- 
gled with the tones of a free and happy people, 
without a discordant note from the throat of a 
single down-trodden creature, shall be in the ears 
of the oppressed of other lands a music sweeter 

than the strains the enraptured poet heard 

"When once (he) sat upon a promontory 
And heard a mermaid on a dolphins' back 
Utter such dulcet and harmonious strainf 
That the rude sea grew civil at her song 
And certain stars shot madly from their sphetefl 
To hear the seamaid's music" 




W()!WI>.AY,.-;!.A>»H)ARY L 



A r \kii rmmon of tJif ii"-"-- B<;L.'Miit.;ui', 
1 riutsylvftnja Voluutc*:! : at Cham- 

h«rKbui*g recently, the ftvidresB of welcoiiaie 
was (leli-vered by Lieutenant Colonel D. \V, 
"Kowe, ai fre-AP.nt associiite law kludge 
of the <listric4..<jmbifaciiig Frankiln ^oYiirty. 
It -wiw an adiviirabL' oration, and one whicli 

■ *l^i4l»<^.reiiit t^ike'Mtbe pi».t-'''^"'->'-s-;( r?^l learn- 

.(«^^ ofJlu(]i.';e Koiive. 



BE-rjriOX OF THE 126th KEOIl»IENT 
PJCNNSYI.VAXIA V4»L,ITKTEERS. 



The first annual re union of the surviving mem- 
bers of thrt 126th Regiment Pennsylvania Volun- 
teers, was held in Chambersburg, on Tuesday, 
December J3th, 1870 S"rae two hundred offict-rs 
and men of the regiment were present, besides 
invited guests from other regiments The com- 
mittee of arrangements consisted of the following 
persorif: T M. Mabon, Chairman; Sergt. John 
A. Seiders, Lieut. G F. Piatt, Lieut. Josiah W. 
Fletcher, L'eut. George W. Welsh nnd Sergt. 
Harry Slncklt-r. For its well arranged pro- 
gramme, and the able and successful manner in 
which all the proce'^diogs were conducted, this 
committee deserves great credit. 

Accordmg to pri'gianimf», the regiment first 
assembled in the Court Hous**, at 1^ o'clock, P. 
M , where the address of welcome and annual 
oration were delivered. The meeting was called 
to order by T. M. Mihon, and the exercises 
opened with prayer by Rev. John Ault. He re- 
turned thanks to Him who bad permitted the 
meeting of the day. Though many had been 
called to lay down their lives on the field of battle, 
or die a lingering death in the damp tent or 
loath:<ome hospital, a goodly number were spared 
to meet in peace when the fires of rebellion were 
quenched and the honor of the government sus- 
tained. He prayed for the President, the govern- 
ment, all public councils, that they might rule in 
the fear of God; fur the nation m its sio, that re- 
penting it might become an example of righteous- 
ness to all the world; that He would bless these 
returned soldiers in all their pursuits; when duty 
called they buckled on the sword of Liberty, 
might they now gird on thntof the Spirit, and as 
they fought under the "banner of the stars" for 
the preservation of the Union, might they now 
ftlao go forth and .battle under the banner of 
Christ for the gaining of UU kingdom. 

The following officers were then elected: 

Presidetit— Col. James G. Elder. 
Vice Preoidents — Capt. VVm. H. Davidson, 
Sergt. .John A. Seiders. 

Secretary— Lieut. W H. Mickey. 
TreHSuror — Sergt McClellan. 

Col. Elder on taking tfie chair said: Ladies 
and Gentlemen, Ic affords me great pleasure to 
meet you here to day. Comrades of the J26lh, I 



greet you, who have come to day to this re-union. 
We meet to mourn for our comrades slain and 
rejoice with those living. I bid you all welcome. 

Col. Elder was followed by Lieut. Col. Rowe, 
in his address of welcome. 

In order thnt the members of the regiment and 
its many friends who were unable to be present, 
may have an opportunity to peruse the address of 
welcome, delivered by Col. Rowe, and the annual 
oratiim by Adjutant John Stewart, we propose 
to publish them in full next week, and therefore 
make no further mention of them here than to 
say that both were able and eloquent addre8>es 
and were listened to with marked pleasure by a 
very large and highly pleased audience. 

At the conclusion of the address, a recess of 
ten minutes was voted, for th^ purpose of Mfford- 
ing the members an opportuiity to welcome Gen. 
E. B. Tjler. They crowded around their old 
leader, who no doubt felt a welcome truer than 
words could express, in the hearty grasp of each 
soldier's hand. 

The recess over, the following business was 
transacted. 

The report of the committee on constitution, 
«fec , accepted, and the following coustitutiou and 
by-laws adopted: 

CONSTITUTION. 

The object of this organization is to promote 
and encourage amonx the survivors of the 126lh 
Regiment P. V., the leeliims of friendship and 
sympathy which grew up amnng itn members du- 
ring their service in the war of the Kebellion, and 
to perpetuate the memory of their decewsed com- 
rades and of the scenes and incidents which they 
saw and experienced. 

I. This orcaiiization shall consist of the officers 
and privates of the J"26ih Regiment who subscribe 
tbeir names to the constitution, and pay the an- 
nual dues prescribed by the by-laws. 

II. The officers shall consist of a President, 
Vice Prefideiit, Secretary, Corresponding Secre- 
tary and Treasurer, to be elected by a vote of 
the members at the wnnual m- eting. 

HI. The regular armunl meeting shall be held 
on the i:5th day of December in each year, at a 
p'ace tr) b;< detiigiiati d at the regular meeting of 
the preceding year. 

BY LAWS. 

I. Eicb member of the organizntion shall be 
required to pay into the treasury the sum of fifty 
Mutw aoQualijr. 



II. It shall be the datv of the Treasurer to re- 
port at««ach Hnniial ineotine the fiiiancitil condi- 
tion of the orjjatpizatioii. 

The report of the cointnittee on officers for the 
ensuing year was accepted, viz: 

President— Major Rtibert S. Brownson. 

Vice Pieuident— Capt. John H. Walker. 

Secretary— Lieut. George W. Welsh. 

1 reasurer— Sergt. Harry Strickler. , 

The report of the committee on speakers ac- 
cepted : 

Orator — William Kennedy. 

Address of Welcome— Thad. M Mahou. 

Greencastle wns determined upon as the place 
of next meeting, Decembm' 13th, 1871. 

At'jiitant John Stewart then delivered the an- 
nual oration 

The following resolutions were presented and 
adopted: 

Resolved, That we tender our thnnks to the 
edUdi-B of tlie T 'alley Spirit, Franklin Hepository, 
Public Opinion. Valley Echo, Filiate Rtcord, 
Mercersburg Journal, Fulton Democmt. Valley 
Sentind, t</iippensburf{ News, Carlisle Volunteer, 
Carlisle Herald. Utate Journal Fatrivtand Union, 
Juniata Democrat and Register and Juniata Re- 
publican, for their kindneso in publixhing the no 
IJces of oiir re-union, sent to them by the com- 
mittee of Hrrani^ementB. 

Resolved, ThNt a copy of the above resolution 
be sent to the editors of said papers. 

Adjourned till 5 o'clock, P. M. 
BANQUET. 

At 5i o'chiek, P. M., the regiment re-«sseaibled 
in Repository Hall. Here the taste and good 
judgment of the committee of arrangements were 
well displayed in the beautiful manner in which 
the hall w<>s decorated and in the convenience of 
all the arrarigements Three tables were spretid 
with an abufidant supply of those "good things" 
which delight the inner man, whicfi had been' 
prepared by Mr. E. S Shank, the genial proprie- 
tor of the Montgomery House, who knows how, if 
any one does, to tempt the paliite and spoil diges- 
tion. To prevent confusion, the middle table 
was reserved for the ladies and other invited 
guests. Whilst the "old boys" of the 126th, after 
Kev. John Ault had asked a blessing, "did good 
service on the flii/ks." 

After supper the guests were provided with 
seats, and the members of the regiment gathered 
around the middle table and pledged in cold water 
the following toasts, proposed by Col Rowe: 



First— "The Union." i 

Lieut. Jere. Cook responded briefly to the sen 
timent — "The Union" — by saying thHt «o much has 
already been well spoken during the progress ol 
the day's exercises that he felt they would Ihank 
him for beiug brief, and he was as willing to con- 
fer that favor as they were to receive it He 
was the mure willing to be brief b>'cause the toast 
announced presented an exhnustless subject. Af- 
ter a lew poiuted remarks as to the origin of the 
Union, and the central idea about which it was 
framed, the principle that all men are created 
equal, he stated that the antagonism which exist 
ed on that subject led to the rebellion. War was 
accepted by the Government to preserve the 
Union. 

■'That," continued Mr. Cook, "is why it seems 
to me fit and proper that this sentiment should be 
entertained by us But for the war we would not 
be assembled in the capacity we are; and as we 
fought in defence of the Union, at our first re- 
union to recall the memory of those terrible scenes 
of war and bloodshed now almost overgrown with 
the luxuriant growth of the fruits of peace, we 
naturally rejoice that the Union is safe. 

"It seems to me that this sentiment ought to 
convey something more to our minds than the 
idea of the intecrity of the nation. It is true 
there are no states missing in the re.«tored Union, 
but this is not all that is r>'quired to constitute a 
perfect Union. We all rejoice heartily that our 
armies were able to hold the rebellious states in 
the Union in spite of the maduess of secession, 
but we rejoice far more at the unmistakeable 
signs of returning reason to the people of those 
states, and the evidences of their growing love 
' for the old fl.ig and government. All these satis- 
fy us thit the end has justified the war. Let us 
recogoize in this sentiment the fncts, that our 
reunion has no sectional feeling in it, und uo sen- 
timent of hostility toward those who were ar- 
rayed in arms against the Union, but have re- 
lumed to herin good faith and sincerity; that this 
is a Union of the people of the United States, as 
well as of the several States, that ours is a homo 
geneous govei nment, that we are one people. Let 
us give special expression to the thought that 
whatever of rejoicing we feel and express here, 
some of it, at least, is due to the recognition of 



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the fact that the Union which was preseryed 
through war has brought untiuinbered blesningn 
to those who in their uiadtiegs fought against it 
with arms in their hands, as well as to those who 
were triumphant in the war, nnd that the blessed 
fruits of peace are to-day acknowledged and 
prized by them as they are by us. 

Second — "The patriotic women of America." 

Responded '.o by \Ym Kennedy You do well 
to propose a toast to woman, f:>r in our own idea 
of this world's happiness, woman and toast are 
inseparably connected. I appreciate the feelings 
of gratitude which prompted the committee to 
lUHkethistoastanrssentiiilprtrtonhis programme. 
For without women I would like to know where 
any of us would be to-night, and more, there is 
uot one of us would have a button on bis shirt 
"Woman," said the ereal Toodles, in a Herculean 
effort to veut the feelings that swelled in his 
bosom, "woman, lovely woman, you're a trump." 
With woman on our side we win the battle ol 
lite. Some one has said, "womua is like ivy, the 
greater the ruin the closer she clings," and he 
was a sour old bachelor who perverted it into the 
'closer she clings the greater the ruin." Woman, 
ir, is the necessity of our being; the great Crea 
tor saw it was not good for man to be alone, so 
He gave him woman to increase his joys and 
double bis expenses But we are to talk of the 
patriotic women of America They, like th" 
Spartan mother, never nursed a coward. She 
told her son, when she sent him forth to do batMt', 
"Come back with your shield or on it," but how 
much higher, nobler, is her character who g«v.« 
her son and left the issue with the Gcd <•( battles. 
It is my duty on this occasion to speuU ni thu..<o 
women who through the weary nijjlit hours 
watched by the bedsid« of the sufFering, binding 
up wounds, administering the cooling draught, 
whispering words of comfort, closing the eyes m 
death and bearing the last mespage to loved ones 
at home. If it be true tnat dropping a single tear 
is greater than shedding rivers of gore, then we 
must yieW the palm to womnn. My comrades, 
it does require some courage to stand in battle, 
but you will agree that not upon man, but woman, 
the sorrow must fall. 

Third — 'To our dead comrades." 

Dra.ik in silence. 



Fourth— "The army." 

Responfe by Gen. E B Tyler. In responding 
to the sentiment which has just been announced, 
I feel as if it would have been better if you bad 
selected some one who belonged to the regiment, 
rather than me to respond, and the more so since 
it i* not my forte to make specchug — in other 
words, I'm not a "speechist." Looking back, 
we find that the fiivt organization of armies was 
among the Egyptians. Several thousand men 
were arranged in what they called the army. 
The army was divided into two divisions; the 
men were armed with pikes and swords — thf're 
were no cannon and muskets in those days. 
But this is history, and I'll leave it and come 
down to our army, which raised its hat to the 
"stars and stripes," the army which forms the 
nucleus around which the citizens of our govern- 
ment rally to protect it in time of danger. Its 
dead, its living heroes, we all know, and it would 
be folly for me to stand hi^re and try to portray 
them. It is due to-night that I should repeat 
what I made a part of the official history of the 
war, that it is a pleasure 'or me to be surrounded 
by those men who performed their duty as sol- 
diers honorably and well What can I say more. 
It seems to me that that covers the ground. I 
will saj that I always felt honored by the alacrity 
with which you performed my commands, and 
shall carry the feeling to my grave. It must, it 
should be gratifying to the pri le of evi-ry one to 
jknow that their record is without spot. Theirs 
IS the pride of sustaining their country, rigiit or 
wrong — prefering that it should be rithl— but 
their country right or wrong. Ttiis is the fourth 
rejpaKDtftl re-union I han attun(h:d since the 

war, and none can be compared to this. There 
is nothing more gratifying to him who has been 
honored with ihe command of men, than to know 
bis men think hd has done hisduty. The govern 
ment gave me the power to command, but you 
did the work God bless you. 

Fifth — "The citizen soldier." 

Responded to by Lieut Geo. W. Welsh. The 
tyrantsof the Earth, in all uge«, have suxtained 
themnelvps upon their thrones by the power of 
standing armies, supported by resources wrung 
from the hands of their toiling subjects By this 
means theambilious and selfish have enslaved and 



perpetuated the glavery of millions. Wrest, for a 
day, from the hands of Emperor, King Czar and 
Sultao the power of these hired soldiers, and the 
next diipatch wbi'-h flashes beneath the Atlantic 
from the Old World will proclaim that in all Eu- 
rope there exiets not a throne, crown or sceptre. 
Remove trom the soldiers which cumpose these 
armies all hope of gain and preferment, and they 
will disappear like mist before the rising sun. 
Stimulated only by promises of reward and pro- 
motion, without an impulse of patriotism, these 
mercenaiy wretches have become traitor* to 
their the best interest of their fellow men, the 
tools by which despots rivet their shacliles on the 
limbs of their victims. 

How different the character of the citiz-^n soi 
dier. Stimulated only by patriotism, atid love 
of race, the citizen sold'er ignoring all selfish in 
terests has been the d'fenci >f li^'ii'iy in ever 
age Wherever the iron grasp of despotism ha? 
been broken, wherever the freedom of a people 
bus been achieved, it has been done by the citi 
Zen soldier. L'>ok at the history of your own 
government. It w&r the citizen sol.fier who 
achieved your libertit^s, the citizen s.ildier who 
has defended and sustained them. In every bat- 
tle of the revo!i;tion from the opening fiay at 
Lexington to the closing fight at Yorktown, it 
was the citizen soldier wh(» met the dri lied and 
disciplined hireling of the tyrant end at last van- 
quished and drove him from our shores In our 
late war with England, veterans who h«d been 
drilled and disciplined under the eye of Wfliiiij^" 
ton, soldiers who in Europe had been the victors 
of many a bloody field, were vanquished by the 
untrained citizen solder in almost every battle 
from Niagara to New Orleans. It wss the citi- 
zen soldier who sustained our national honor in 
every battle in the war with Mexico and planted 
our flag on the walls of her capitol. 

And in the last great struggle for national life 
it was the citizen, untrained in war, wh't at the 
call of his country in the hour of her extreme 
peril, relinquished his peaceful avocation, and 
from work bench and plough and desk came to 
her d<<fence and crushed the power of treason 
and rebellion. 

Despots may sustain their thrones by the 
power of a mercenary soldiery, but the liberties 



of a free people when threat*^ned by tyrany are 
only to be sustained and defended by the patriot, 
ism of the people themselves. 

Sixth — 'The comrades of other regiments." 

Response by Capt. G W. Skinner. I certain- 
ly did not expect to be called upon to respond to 
this or any other toMst My eloquent friend, Mr., 
Kennedy, haj broadly asserted here this evening 
that no American mother ever nursed a coward, 
but I am afraid I am about to disprove the truth 
of his assertion, by shirking the duty you, sir, 
have just imposed upon me. Besides, by your 
own intimation, the time for this part of the 
programur>e of the evening has passed I must 
go so far, however, as to thank you, and the 
gullantboysof the 126th, inbehalfof my comrades 
of other regiments, for your remembrance of us 
on this occasion. I feel that it is no uncommon 
honor you have done us — Fredericksburg and 
Chancellorsville toasting the other battle fields of 
the war. Between all soldiers, Mr. Chairman, 
there exists a common bond of sympathy, tt 
was well said by Col. Rowe, in his address of 
welcome to-dtty, that we are all in a manner 
brothers. Yes, brothers. Having been called 
forth to succor the same cause, having passed 
throuyh the same routine of duties, and having 
•bared the same kind of dangers, the tie that 
binds us is almost as strong as that which draws 
to one another the hearts of those wh'j in child 
hood's hour knelt at the same parental knee 
Between my own regiment, which held a reunion 
hero a few weeks ago, and'the 126th, there exists 
a peculiar bond of sympathy. It might be said 
that the same section sent us forth, and in the 
ranks of the one were numbered many friends 
and relatives of those in the ranks of the other. 
We gHve }ou our sympathy in the field, we felt 
l^roud of your bravery, and we unite to night, 
pretent and absent ones alike, in wishing you a 
good time generally. Again we thank you for 
your kindness. 

Seveiith— "The Loyal People of the Border, 
who fought the enemy at the front, while their 
homes were ravaged by rebsl invaders." 

Response by L'eut. James Pott. 

Lieut. Pott in his response took occasion to refer 
to the rt-peated invasions made by the rebel 
armies into the defenceless border counties, and 



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the havoc made by thorn upon the property i>f 
loyal citizens, many of whom were at the front 
fighting the cominnii enemy, and animadverted 
e^yerely but forcibly upon the unwarranted as- | 
saultg of the press of the State upon our citizens 
in their appeal to the Legislature for relief. We 
regret that the extreme ler.glh to which he ex- 
tended his remarks compels us to forego the 
pleasure of publishing them in full, and it would 
be doing him uanifest injustice to present an 
unsatisfactory abstract of ihcm 

Thetoa8t8,"The KeystoneStato,""The Flag," ^ 
"The 126th Regiment P. V.." "OurFulton Coun- 
ty Comrades," "Our Juniata County Comrades," 
were taken together and responded lo by all the 
members of the regiment in three hearty cheers. 

Interesting letters nnd dispatches were received 
Uova a number of members of the regiment, 
'.vhose attendance great distance and other cir- 
ci; nstancts rendered impossible. Kind iy greet- 
in!;H and remembrances, tender sympathies for 
tiie old associates and expressions of regret tha 
they could not be present came from the far off 
Pacific coast, from Nebraska, from New Orleans, 
from Baltimore and other points. 

The regiment now adjourned to the Court 
House to listen to the recitations and await part 
fourth of the programme. 

Mr. Samuel Palmer was introduced and recited 
the "Charge of the Light Brigade" in an excel- 
lent manner. 

A« no one had been chosen to complete this 
part of the programme, by a unanimous vote 
Lieut. J. W. Fletcher was called upon to recite 
"Sheridan's Ride." The Lieutenant, after re- 
marking that ho stood on delicate ground in at- 
I tempting to recite "this poet praised poem of an 
, artist poet," delivered the production iu a man- 
ner to excite llie admiration and cheers of the 
audience 

The Promenade Concert foHowed next, and as 
it was iiite.ided it should be, so it was, the crown 
ing featuri" of the day. Ou reentering Reposi 
fory Hall, we found the scene entirely changed. 
Trie tallies wore cleared away, the room was 
crowded with Itdies and gentlemen promenading 
— ladies from abroad aiid the pretty girls of 
Chainbersburg as well — with the Chambersburg 
Silver Cornet Bind and Orchestra discoursing 



inspiring music, and the fljor all ready for dan- 
cing. Is it surprising, good folks, that thoao 
inclined to trip the "light fantastic" could not 
resist the temptation to datice? And datice they 
did until the midnight hour had struck, and the 
shrieks of the locuoiutive whistle warned the 
delegations from abroad that it was time to leave. 
The citizens of Chambersburg will long remem- 
ber with pleasure the happy re union of these 
brave dcfguders of the nation's honor, who fought 
at the front while their homes were ravaged by 
rebel invaders. *'' ' 



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